September 7, 2021 9 min read @Catherine Yu Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement On July 21st, 2021, Slack officially became a part of Salesforce at the price tag of $27.7 billion. This was…
September 1, 2021 6 min read @Slack Engineering The Four Agile Values and Slack Agile development methods can bolster company culture and empower teams to move quickly, with a focus on…
July 13, 2021 8 min read @Divya Kamath Managing Focus Transitions in Slack At Slack, we believe that designing an optimal keyboard experience is key to delivering a best-in-class product…
April 23, 2021 15 min read @Shreya Ramesh Load Testing with Koi Pond Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior…
March 24, 2021 19 min read @Justin Rushing Client Tracing: Understanding Mobile and Desktop Application Performance at Scale A customer writes in and says the dreaded words: “My app is slow”. Here we go… Performance problems can be a…
February 18, 2021 8 min read @Zac Sweers Shadow Jobs We take developer productivity pretty seriously at Slack. It’s multi-faceted, spreading across build speed,…
May 14, 2020 8 min read @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…
April 14, 2020 9 min read @Scott Sandler Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP Slack launched in 2014 with a PHP 5 backend. Along with several other companies, we switched to HHVM in 2016…