Slack Bug Bounty: Three Years Later
We’ve reached a few big milestones for the Slack Bug Bounty program: it’s our three-year anniversary, and we’ve paid out more than $210,000 in bountie…
How Slack Supports Junior Engineers
Mentorship, Impact, and a Culture of Growth
Reducing Slack’s memory footprint
Our desktop app is the most widely used and most capable Slack client that we offer. For many of our customers, it is one of just a few apps they keep…
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 …