Development Environments at Slack
How Slack’s development environments have evolved over time.
A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
6:45 am
My alarm is set for 6:45 but I often wake up before it goes off. I tend to wake up earlier during Vancouver’s long summer days, when the sun …
Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP
How and why Slack migrated to Hack, the benefits it gave us, and things to consider for your own codebase.
A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and our current shelter in place orders in San Francisco.
Deploys at Slack
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability.
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without leaving a permanent mark. Microkernels; EPIC…
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at Slack
This is the second in a series of posts describing the everyday life of Engineers in different parts of Slack’s ecosystem.
Reliably Upgrading Apache Airflow at Slack’s Scale
For two years we’ve been running Airflow 1.8, and it was time for us to catch up. Here’s how we did it without impacting 700B daily records.