Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modernization
In the first two posts about the Duplo initiative, we described why we decided to revamp our mobile codebases, the initial phase to clean up tech debt…
Continuous Load Testing
Building a culture of performance with Koi Pond
Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22
Double Trouble with Datastores
Handling Flaky Tests at Scale: Auto Detection & Suppression
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and…
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 mobile codebases, and what we accompl…
Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform
According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform engineering product teams that create and sup…
Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack
A story of evolving socio-technical workflows that increased developer velocity and redefined confident testing and deploy workflows at Slack.
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 operationalized a self-driving Kafka cluster over t…