@Tracy Stampfli@Bryan Stern
Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modularization
In the first post about the Duplo initiative, we discussed the reasons for launching a project to revamp Slack’s…
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@Javier Turegano
Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform
According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform…
@Carlos Valdez@Frank Chen
Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack
In 2021, we changed developer testing workflows for Webapp, Slack’s main monorepo, from predominantly testing…
@Suman Karumuri@George Luong
Building Self-driving Kafka clusters using open source components
In this article, I will talk about how Slack uses Kafka, and how a small-but-mighty team built and…
@Tracy Stampfli@Bryan Stern
Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases
When do you need to overhaul a large code base to address tech debt? What is the best way to address widespread…
@Clément Labbe
A Simple Kubernetes Admission Webhook
While adding a recent feature to our Kubernetes compute platform, we had the need to mutate newly-created pods…
@Tejas Mehta
Going from Coder to Slack Engineer
Over 70% of the files uploaded on Slack are images, and over 75% of those images are screenshots. What this…
@Rafael Elvira@Laura Nolan
The Case of the Recursive Resolvers
On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for…
