May 4, 2022 13 min read @Tracy Stampfli@Bryan Stern Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modularization In the first post about the Duplo initiative, we discussed the reasons for launching a project to revamp Slack’s…
March 16, 2022 12 min read @Javier Turegano Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform…
August 23, 2022 14 min read @Carlos Valdez@Frank Chen Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack In 2021, we changed developer testing workflows for Webapp, Slack’s main monorepo, from predominantly testing…
August 23, 2022 13 min read @Suman Karumuri@George Luong Building Self-driving Kafka clusters using open source components In this article, I will talk about how Slack uses Kafka, and how a small-but-mighty team built and…
May 4, 2022 17 min read @Tracy Stampfli@Bryan Stern Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases When do you need to overhaul a large code base to address tech debt? What is the best way to address widespread…