Powering the Slack Bot Armada
The bots are on the rise! And they are coming to make your work life less tedious, more fun and more productive. Imagine an entourage of bot coworkers who have perfect hygiene, don’t talk loudly on the phone, and are always willing to help. We at Beep Boop believe a workplace Slack bot revolution will soon unfold, and we are partnering with Slack to power this oncoming armada of bots!
There’s a lot of hype around bots, artificial intelligence and messaging as the new “app” platform. This new frontier of development is exciting! But the outcomes, like the gold rush of the 1800's, will be boom or bust. We are outfitting developers for this adventure and making it easy for anyone who wants to try their hand at striking it big in workplace bots. Saddle up partner.
Autoscaling to 1000’s of Slack Teams
Today we are announcing a limited preview of a change to how we will launch and scale bot containers 🎉. Going forward, bots will connect to multiple Slack teams per container (today we launch one container per Slack team). Whether your bot is added to one team or ten thousand teams, Beep Boop will scale and balance team connections across containers automatically for you.
We’ll be reaching out to a small number of Beep Boop users this week about these new features. If you’d like early access, just let us know in the BeepBoopHQ Slack team (you’re invited to this Slack team when you sign-up for Beep Boop).
New to Beep Boop?
Beep Boop manages developers’ source code through GitHub and launches bots as Docker containers, giving developers the freedom to write bots in the language or framework of their choice. Slack bots hosted by Beep Boop are also wired for continuous integration and deployment, so as changes and updates are made to a master branch, a new version of the bot is created and running bots are upgraded automatically.
The best way to learn about Beep Boop is to try it yourself! Sign up today and the beepboop bot will guide you through the setup and launch of your first Slack bot. Otherwise here’s an overview of the anatomy of a Beep Boop Slack bot:
Our mission is to be the most effortless and obvious service to run Slack bots at scale, and to create a seamless developer experience that allows you to focus on creating great bots while leaving all of the build, provisioning and scaling challenges to us. Let us know how we can be your hero. 🙋
