Bots FAQs

There are many positive and productive use cases for bots. Imagine a customer service support chat. As soon as a customer enters the support channel, a bot immediately identifies the customer and then:

• fetches recent sales information from the sales dept server

• fetches personal information from the customer database

• fetches the latest notes made by her/his salesperson from the CRM system

• scans the customer's Facebook and Twitter posts

• obtains details of the last support ticket for this customer

Putting it all together and then private message the service rep with the information.

Another use-case is a load test bot; imagine a bot that accepts the command:

rocketbot loadtest europe 25, asia 50, usa 100, canada 10

This command specifies a distribution of test bot instances to be created across globally located data centers.

Once received, the bot:

• parses the distribution

• concurrently ssh to remote Kubernetes controllers and spawns the specified number of test bot instances to start the load test

Sure, it is based on hubot-meteorchat. hubot-meteorchat is the hubot integration project for Meteor based chats and real-time messaging systems. Its driver-based architecture simplifies the creation and customization of adapters for new systems. For example, the hubot-rocketchat integration is just hubot-meteorchat + Rocket.Chat driver.

Learn more about hubot-meteorchat and other available drivers at this link