Scaling is hard. Design decisions that initially seemed reasonable break down with little warning, and suddenly even the simplest parts of your data model need to go through a complex re-architecture. We’re tackling this problem at Slack. A lot of our early design decisions made sense for small workspaces, but can be inefficient for large … Continue reading Re-architecting Slack’s Workspace Preferences: How to Move to an EAV Model to Support Scalability