Making Slack Feel Like Slack

June 2, 2016

9 min read

@Slack Engineering

Systems problems are rooted in impossible dreams. Your file system wants to give you infinite, fast, durable…

May 11, 2016

7 min read

@Faraz Khan

Calls: Is it you or is it me?

Slack Calls are now in beta, on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome. If you haven’t given it a try yet, please…

May 4, 2016

9 min read

@Julia Grace

Interviews, eh? Horrid, stressful ordeals that fly by in a sweaty mess and then linger long in the memory. Or,…

April 25, 2016

9 min read

@Anaïs Betts

As part of writing the Slack Desktop application, we created a new library / set of tools that will save other…

March 30, 2016

6 min read

@Greg Pelly@Mark Christian

Developers working on the same project often have wildly different workflows, based on how they like to work and…

February 29, 2016

6 min read

@Ryan Huber

How does a company know when it has been hacked? Let’s list some ways, in order of best case to worst case: The…

February 22, 2016

5 min read

@Mark Christian@Duretti Hirpa

Last time, we talked about empathy and what goes into good pull requests. This time, let’s talk about the other…

February 16, 2016

5 min read

@Duretti Hirpa@Mark Christian

At Slack, we believe that empathy is humanity’s most important superpower. For our engineering team, that…