December 6, 2023 12 min read @Archie Gunasekara Our Journey Migrating to AWS IMDSv2 We are heavy users of Amazon Compute Compute Cloud (EC2) at Slack — we run approximately 60,000 EC2 instances…
March 21, 2023 11 min read @Tricia Bogen Technology Lifecycle This blog post discusses the strategies that Slack uses to manage the lifecycle (development, support, and…
March 16, 2022 12 min read @Javier Turegano Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform…
October 20, 2021 13 min read @Archie Gunasekara Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we…
September 16, 2020 10 min read @Archie Gunasekara Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few…
May 14, 2020 7 min read @Ryan Huber Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack “What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service…