Unified Grid: How We Re-Architected Slack for Our Largest Customers
All software is built atop a core set of assumptions. As new code is added and new use-cases emerge, software can become unmoored from those assumptio…
Unlocking Efficiency and Performance: Navigating the Spark 3 and EMR 6 Upgrade Journey at Slack
Slack Data Engineering recently underwent data workload migration from AWS EMR 5 (Spark 2/Hive 2 processing engine) to EMR 6 (Spark 3 processing engin…
Proactive Measures Against Password Breaches and Cookie Hijacking
Enhancing Slack User Security
Catching Compromised Cookies
How we automatically detect stolen session cookies
Advanced Rollout Techniques: Custom Strategies for Stateful Apps in Kubernetes
In a previous blog post—A Simple Kubernetes Admission Webhook—I discussed the process of creating a Kubernetes webhook without relying on Kubebuilder.…
Balancing Old Tricks with New Feats: AI-Powered Conversion From Enzyme to React Testing Library at Slack
Accelerate code conversion with AI
How Women Lead Data Engineering at Slack
Step into the dynamic world of data engineering where women are crafting the future of data technology