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…
The Slack Internship
A reflection on what I learned as a Slack intern.
Data Consistency Checks
Databases. They are the single source of truth for our most critical business data, yet as engineers we tend to overlook tooling with this in mind.
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Getting to Slack faster with incremental boot
At Slack, we’re on a mission to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive — improving the performance of our products fa…