Remote Development at Slack
In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack applicatio…
Building Background Effects for Clips
A real-time, web-based video processing pipeline
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…