Re-architecting Slack’s Workspace Preferences: How to Move to an EAV Model to Support Scalability

August 9, 2018

10 min read

@Alisha Ukani

Scaling is hard. Design decisions that initially seemed reasonable break down with little warning, and suddenly…

July 31, 2018

13 min read

@Liang Shi

Unified Cross-Platform Performance Metrics

With the fast pace of life today, people expect information to be available to them at the speed of light,…

July 25, 2018

8 min read

@Amy Shan

Digging through a large codebase to locate a bug can feel incredibly overwhelming, especially for a junior…

June 19, 2018

11 min read

@Erica Engle@Kaya Thomas

Ever needed to squint to see some text? How about feeling unsure where a button is because it’s…

April 26, 2018

12 min read

@Max Feldman

For development teams, process can often be antithetical to speed. Ease of deployment and security tend to have…

January 31, 2018

28 min read

@Machisté N. Quintana

While it’s no secret that the cross-platform Slack Desktop app is built on Electron, it might be slightly less…

January 25, 2018

7 min read

@Brenda Jin

You know how to design a good API, but how do you evolve that API when it’s time to make changes? We’ve faced…

January 17, 2018

14 min read

@Rowan Oulton

webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its…