November 28, 2023 10 min read @Yuriy Loginov Managing Slack Connect Slack Connect, AKA shared channels, allows communication between different Slack workspaces, via channels shared…
February 8, 2023 7 min read @Matt Brown Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously TL; DR: We’re announcing a new open source type checker for Hack, called Hakana. Slack launched in 2014, built…
August 31, 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…
November 21, 2023 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…
May 14, 2020 10 min read @Madeline Shortt A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack 7am I’m definitely not a morning person, so when my alarm goes off, I can’t help but stay in bed a little while…
June 25, 2020 14 min read @Slack Engineering Scaling Slack’s Job Queue Slack uses a job queue system for business logic that is too time-consuming to run in the context of a web…