July 2, 2024 11 min read @Slack Engineering Unlocking Efficiency and Performance: Navigating the Spark 3 and EMR 6 Upgrade Journey at Slack Slack Data Engineering recently underwent data workload migration from AWS EMR 5 (Spark 2/Hive 2 processing…
May 8, 2024 10 min read @Slack Engineering How Women Lead Data Engineering at Slack The Data Engineering team is responsible for Slack’s data lake, analytics dashboards, and other data services.…
October 6, 2023 9 min read @Slack Engineering Unleashing Impact at Slack’s Data Engineering Internship Introduction Ever wondered what it’s like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on…
August 31, 2022 10 min read @Slack Engineering Our Hybrid and Collaborative Summer @ Slack’s Data Eng An internship at Slack is an exciting opportunity to learn new skills, meet other engineers, and build cool…
August 16, 2021 10 min read @Samuel Bock Data Lineage at Slack Reinventing how the world does work inevitably creates a lot of data. Each year, Slack’s scale has increased and…
July 30, 2021 12 min read @Sarah Henkens Email Classification With the release of Slack Connect, people can now collaborate both with internal employees and external…
June 17, 2020 9 min read @Ashwin Shankar Reliably Upgrading Apache Airflow at Slack’s Scale Apache Airflow is a tool for describing, executing, and monitoring workflows. At Slack, we use Airflow to…