Search at Slack
On average, 20% of a knowledge worker’s day is spent looking for the information they need to get their work done. If you think about a typical work w…
Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy: Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1, covering some highlights and lessons learned from a refactor of the way the Slack desktop client fetches messages. I…
Weaving Threads
A human-centric approach to organizing conversations
Introducing Electron to the Windows Runtime
The Slack Desktop Client is powered by Electron, the same framework that enables Atom, Visual Studio Code, and Basecamp to deliver delightful desktop …
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.