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StackStorm is the company blog at stackstorm.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “StackStorm enterprise features donated To Linux Foundation”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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22mentions?
19HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers mention the StackStorm site as a reference for StackStorm, an open-source automation tool described as "IFTTT for Ops". Its product pages, case study and blog are cited as sources or suggestions.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

StackStorm connects all your apps, services, and workflows. Why StackStorm? Get Started Open source and trusted by the enterprise Robust Automation Engine From simple if/then rules to complicated workflows, StackStorm lets you automate DevOps your way. See More Features... Integrates with your Exist

Most-linked posts?

  1. StackStorm enterprise features donated To Linux Foundation
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-01
  2. StackStorm – Event-Driven DevOps Automation Platform
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-21
  3. StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-20
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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wonder what the relationship is to StackStorm[1]? StackStorm is older and lists Netflix as a sponsor / user. [1] https://stackstorm.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine”
  2. Submitted Ansible and ChatOps. Get started 🚀 as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  3. For some ideas on how to automate the cross-referencing that you're describing, see https://stackstorm.com/2016/01/29/unifying-disparate-applica...

    Comment linking /2016/01/29/unifying-disparate-applications-one-system/

    on “Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat”
  4. Submitted StackStorm brings large catalog of open-source functions to Lambda as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. StackStorm developer here. I've worked with multiple services in multiple teams where upstream fixes take a while and meanwhile devs and ops people get paged like crazy for a diagonized and remediable problem. Agreed that logrotate config needs to be fixed for this case but it is only a simple demo for auto-remediation. For years, Cassandra dead node replacement is a 6 step manual process. You'd think upstream shoul…

    Comment linking /2015/09/22/auto-remediating-bad-hosts-in-cassandra-cluster-with-stackstorm/

    on “StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops”
  6. Submitted Autoscaling Docker Swarm on AWS with StackStorm as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. This blog post is interesting and it's good to see some numbers (one technician per 25,000 servers). Also, it touches upon one interesting aspect - "When do you automate a thing?". It would be interesting to know the actual metrics they use. Shameless plug: http://stackstorm.com/ is very similar to FBAR and is helping customers reap the benefits of automation. We share the vision and we are completely open source. F…

    Comment linking /

    on “An Inside Look at Facebook’s Approach to Automation and Human Work”
  8. Submitted You are probably doing ChatOps wrong as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Few more options for "IFTTT for DevOps": http://docs.factor.io/ http://stackstorm.com/ http://www.airstack.io/ https://www.cloudmunch.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Runbook – DevOps, automated”
  10. Submitted StackStorm enterprise features donated To Linux Foundation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Consider StackStorm - Platform : [ https://stackstorm.com ] - Integrations : [ https://exchange.stackstorm.org ]

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    on “Ask HN: Low-code orchestration system / SaaS”
  12. Submitted StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. https://nifi.apache.org https://docs.saltproject.io/en/getstarted/ https://stackstorm.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?”
  14. Submitted StackStorm (IFTTT for Ops) Joins LinuxFoundation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Story goes to their Github repo - the product page is available too [0]. I saw it briefly mentioned earlier in a story about Netflix using them. [0]: https://stackstorm.com/product/

    Comment linking /product/

    on “StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops”
  16. Submitted If you’re in IT firefight, how do you get time to fix? Be a force multiplier as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. We got confused when researching StackStorm so to save you some digging : the software has been donated to the Linux foundation and is no longer supported by a commercial offering. See: https://stackstorm.com/2020/05/27/extreme-networks-donates-e... The website is out of date and still refers to the defunct enterprise offering

    Comment linking /2020/05/27/extreme-networks-donates-ewc-to-linux-foundation/

    on “StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops”
  18. Submitted On Beginning Software Delivery Acceleration as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Netflix case study is from 2016 https://stackstorm.com/case-study-netflix/ but there's activity in the temporal forums/meetups this year https://community.temporal.io/t/proxying-access-to-temporal-...

    Comment linking /case-study-netflix/

    on “StackStorm – IFTTT for Ops”
  20. Submitted Extreme Networks Donates EWC to Linux Foundation – StackStorm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted StackStorm – Event-Driven DevOps Automation Platform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Puppet Module to Install StackStorm – Announcing Release Candidate as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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