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A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack
@Laura Nolan

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack

On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. This is a detailed look into the technical issues that caused it.
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The App Sandbox
@Charlie Hess

The App Sandbox

What is the "app sandbox," what is it protecting against, and why does it matter?
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Scaling End-to-End User Interface Tests
@Kavita Chodavarapu@Bryant Ung

Scaling End-to-End User Interface Tests

At Slack, Quality is a shared responsibility. The Quality Engineering team is focused on creating a culture of testing, increasing test coverage, and …
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Prototyping at Slack
@Kyle Stetz

Prototyping at Slack

Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is proposed and researc…
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A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack
@Natalie Qabazard

A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack

6:28 am First alarm rings. Snooze. 6:30 am Second alarm rings. Snooze. 6:34 am Final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, so I hop out of…
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Happiness is… a freshly organized codebase
@Erica Engle

Happiness is… a freshly organized codebase

Starting From the Top Imagine joining a new team at a new company and you finally get access to a codebase.  Slack iOS Xcode File Hierarchy 2017 Whe…
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Development Environments at Slack
@Michael Deng

Development Environments at Slack

How Slack’s development environments have evolved over time.
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A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
@Kevin Lai

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 …
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