@Ariane van der Steldt@Radha Kumari
Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the…
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@Zac Sweers
Shadow Jobs
We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed,…
@Laura Nolan
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th…
@Slack Engineering
Women in Security at Slack
Since its inception, Slack has fostered a culture of inclusion and diversity. The Security organization at Slack…
@Kalpak Pingle
A Day in the Life of a Backend Platform Engineer at Slack Pune
5:25 am First alarm rings. *Snooze.* 6:30 am The final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I get up…
@Slack Engineering
Creating a React Analytics Logging Library
In the first installment of the article, we examined why we built a React analytics library. We also looked at…
@Slack Engineering
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL…
@Ashwin Shankar
Migrating Slack Airflow to Python 3 Without Disruption
Last year, we migrated Airflow from 1.8 to 1.10 at Slack (see here) and we did a “Big bang” upgrade because of…
