We’re All Just Looking for Connection
We've been working to bring components of Quip's technology into Slack with the canvas feature, while also maintaining the stand-alone Quip product. Q…
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Executing Cron Scripts Reliably At Scale
Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are …
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuratio…
How Slack Built Shared Channels
Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
Data Consistency Checks
Databases. They are the single source of truth for our most critical business data, yet as engineers we tend to overlook tooling with this in mind.
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