@Scott Sandler
Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP
Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016…
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@Madeline Shortt
A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack
7am I’m definitely not a morning person, so when my alarm goes off, I can’t help but stay in bed a little while…
@Michael Deng@Jonathan Chang
Deploys at Slack
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback…
@Keith Adams@Johnny Rodgers
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without…
@Christine Lee
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at Slack
6:45am The sound of coffee grinding wakes me up 15 minutes before my alarm. I’m not a morning person, but I…
@Ashwin Shankar
Reliably Upgrading Apache Airflow at Slack’s Scale
Apache Airflow is a tool for describing, executing, and monitoring workflows. At Slack, we use Airflow to…
@Ryan Huber
Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack
“What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service…
@Maude Lemaire
A Day in the Life of a Backend Foundation Engineer at Slack
6:00 am While it’s not always easy to get up before seven, particularly when the sun hasn’t risen yet, being…
