How Slack Built Shared Channels
Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit
A group of engineers, designers, and writers began to centralize and standardize components. We named it Slack Kit.
Interning on Slack’s Product Security Team
Detecting vulnerabilities in Javascript/npm packages with daily scans
Service Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support
Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.
PanModal: Better support for thumb accessibility on Slack mobile
What does it mean to design for thumbs?
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