Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering
Slack is a large and complex piece of software that’s been added to and changed many times over the last five years. We added features, grew to 10,000…
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on.
🏄♀️ Surf’s Up! Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load Testing
Shipping features with confidence and finding bottlenecks before our users do
Chrome Tracing for Fun and Profit
You might have used DevTools to profile your JavaScript. But there’s a lot that DevTools can’t tell you.
Rewriting the Slack Python SDK
Our Journey to Python 3
How Slack Hires a Red Team (and you can too!)
What is a pentest or a red team? Before we go any further, we should define our terms, though you may find they’re often used interchangeably:
Pe…
Refactoring Backend Engineering Hiring at Slack
For anyone who’s ever been involved in the hiring process, it’s no easy feat — particularly in a growing company. To get hiring practices right, it ta…
Highlights from Slack’s March Growth Meetup
The mission of the Slack Growth team is to ensure that every company can successfully adopt and scale Slack. We act on this mission in the following w…