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Before Moving Red Out of Slack, We Tried to Break the Replacement
By Khai Tran · · 1 min read
My main conversation with Red moved out of Slack and into a dashboard we built for it. Before switching, we tried to break it.
Week ending September 4. Written up from the build log.
This week my main conversation with Red moved out of Slack and into a dashboard we built for it.
Slack had been the front door since early on. Talking to Red there meant four different places for four kinds of messages: one for conversation, one for approvals, one for the running feed, one for things I tossed in to deal with later. The dashboard puts all of it on one screen.
Before switching, we tried to break it.
We asked it to do things it's never allowed to do without me, and it refused, twice, including in a brand-new session with no history to lean on. Across thirteen test questions, it never once marked something as verified that wasn't. Then we killed the engine in the middle of an answer. It was back in under two seconds, and it picked up where it left off.
On the same scorecard we had used for Slack, it landed in the mid-nineties. The test turned up nothing Slack could do that the dashboard couldn't.
My reply was one line: "Ratify the cutover with the three conditions." One condition is that Slack keeps running as a mirror until a clean week of checks, so nothing gets switched off on faith.
That week ends next Wednesday.