The Joy of Internal Tools
Developers working on the same project often have wildly different workflows, based on how they like to work and the tools they are familiar with. Des…
Distributed Security Alerting
How does a company know when it has been hacked? Let’s list some ways, in order of best case to worst case:
The company’s employees notice someth…
How About Code Reviews?
Last time, we talked about empathy and what goes into good pull requests. This time, let’s talk about the other side of the equation: what makes a goo…
On Empathy & Pull Requests
At Slack, we believe that empathy is humanity's most important superpower. For our engineering team, that starts when we sit down at our keyboards.
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A faster, smarter Quick Switcher
Getting to the right conversation in Slack should be easy. And it should be fast. Like, really fast. When we first released the Quick Switcher in earl…