Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by alpb on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:20AM
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Disclaimer: I work at Google.
IRC is still actively used as a main communication channel internally at Google to coordinate during outages due to its reliable
and low-dependency nature (where a Slack equivalent app relies on hundreds of service dependencies). I know for a fact that Google is not the only company, and many others that practice SRE-like roles do the same.
IRC is still actively used as a main communication channel internally at Google to coordinate during outages due to its reliable and low-dependency nature (where a Slack equivalent app relies on hundreds of service dependencies). I know for a fact that Google is not the only company, and many others that practice SRE-like roles do the same.