June 29, 2020 4 min read @Felix Rieseberg@Anaïs Betts Introducing Electron to the Windows Runtime The Slack Desktop Client is powered by Electron, the same framework that enables Atom, Visual Studio Code, and…
June 29, 2020 13 min read @Scott Schiller Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy Software performance is like a series of card tricks: Do less up front. Be really lazy. Prepare in the…
June 29, 2020 10 min read @Ronnie Chen@Diana Pojar Data Wrangling at Slack For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our…
June 29, 2020 10 min read @Ryan Huber Syscall Auditing at Scale If you are are an engineer whose organization uses Linux in production, I have two quick questions for you: 1)…
May 14, 2020 5 min read @Ayesha Bose What matters to you, matters to us. At Slack, we’re focused on delivering big, impactful features, but we’re also dedicated to improving our users’…
June 29, 2020 7 min read @Anaïs Betts Building Hybrid Applications with Electron Today we’ve just shipped a new version of the Slack Desktop application for macOS. We built it with Electron,…
June 29, 2020 8 min read @Brenda Jin Mentorship at Slack It’s a scene familiar to many tech companies: summer rolls around, and the office is filled with interns who…
June 29, 2020 11 min read @Keith Adams Taking PHP Seriously Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we…