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A comment on Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?.

Re:Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? by kyrra on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:02AM (#21692274)
Google uses it internally for incident management.

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in...

It's a lightweight server and client that can stay up even when most of Googles core tech is down. You can easily log data from channels, and it just works.

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Re:Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? by goosehonk on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:19AM (#21692974)
Googlers also use it for the daily chat, not just incident response.
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Re:Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? by chaosite on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @11:03AM (#21693521)
Very specific Googlers, mostly SREs, use IRC.
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Re:Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? by goosehonk on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:17PM (#21694295)
After I switched from SRE-SWE to just SWE, my team (of six SWEs) used IRC and it wasn't because of my influence, either.
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Re:Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC? by nv-vn on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#21694442)
In my experience most SWE teams just use the hangouts chat nowadays
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