A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack

April 21, 2020

13 min read

@Kevin Lai

6:45 am My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during…

April 14, 2020

9 min read

@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…

April 6, 2020

10 min read

@Madeline Shortt

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…

March 29, 2020

7 min read

@Michael Deng@Jonathan Chang

Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback…

February 13, 2020

16 min read

@Keith Adams@Johnny Rodgers

Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without…

February 5, 2020

7 min read

@Christine Lee

6:45am The sound of coffee grinding wakes me up 15 minutes before my alarm. I’m not a morning person, but I…

January 15, 2020

9 min read

@Ashwin Shankar

Apache Airflow is a tool for describing, executing, and monitoring workflows. At Slack, we use Airflow to…