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…
April 4, 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…
February 1, 2023 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 24, 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…
October 25, 2022 16 min read @Archie Gunasekara How We Use Terraform At Slack At Slack, we use Terraform for managing our Infrastructure, which runs on AWS, DigitalOcean, NS1, and GCP. Even…