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 background.
Be one step ahead of …
Data Wrangling at Slack
For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential.
The Data Engineer…
Syscall Auditing at Scale
If you are are an engineer whose organization uses Linux in production, I have two quick questions for you:
1) How many unique outbound TCP connect…
What matters to you, matters to us.
Building small features to help our users do what they do in Slack.
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, and, as a result, it’s faster, sports a …
Mentorship at Slack
How we support college-level interns
Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this …
Personalized channel recommendations in Slack
Public channels provide much of Slack’s advantages over email: they are searchable, long-lasting, themed conversations that are easy to join and leave…