August 22, 2023 9 min read @Cooper Bethea Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a…
July 26, 2023 10 min read @Matthew McKeen@Ryan Katkov Service Delivery Index: A Driver for Reliability Customer-first: Moving from Hero Engineering to Reliability Engineering From the beginning, Slack has always had…
April 11, 2023 8 min read @Sameera Thangudu Real-time Messaging Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary…
March 30, 2023 12 min read @Suman Karumuri@George Luong Tracing Notifications Notifications are a key aspect of the Slack user experience. Users rely on timely notifications of mentions and…
March 21, 2023 11 min read @Tricia Bogen Technology Lifecycle This blog post discusses the strategies that Slack uses to manage the lifecycle (development, support, and…
February 8, 2023 7 min read @Matt Brown Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously TL; DR: We’re announcing a new open source type checker for Hack, called Hakana. Slack launched in 2014, built…
July 23, 2024 6 min read @Saif Chaouachi It’s a non-transitive R class world After Duplo modularization, we noticed that the task producing a transitive R class was taking a significant…
January 25, 2023 10 min read @Archie Gunasekara@Andrew Martin What We Learned from Building GovSlack Slack launched GovSlack in July 2022. With GovSlack, government agencies, and those they work with, can enable…