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Reviving Doraemon: A Slack Bot’s Second Life in Kubernetes

originally posted at LinkedIn at Aug 16, 2025

Automation bots have evolved. What’s next?

Some projects stick with you. For me, it was a little Slack bot I hacked together at a previous job—something that could talk to our infrastructure and give quick answers without switching tools. I never learned what happened to it. Layoffs came. From what I later heard, it wasn’t adopted. It felt like watching a small idea I cared about slowly disappear.

Fast-forward to Flagler. I mentioned the bot almost off‑hand, unsure if anyone would care. My boss immediately supported the idea, and that gave me the energy to bring it back. This post is about reviving that project—this time with intent, care, and a proper home in Kubernetes.

Test Redis with Generated Data

Recently I need to test out Redis integration with a Ruby on Rails application. I wanted to test how fast Redis is with 1GB of data.

Instead of manually generating dummy data, I recalled using the Faker library a couple of years ago during my time as a full-stack developer.