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Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously

Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously

@Matt Brown
TL; DR: We’re announcing a new open source type checker for Hack, called Hakana. Slack launched in 2014, built with a lot of love and also a lo…
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Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement

Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement

@Catherine Yu
My internship on the Customer Acquisition team at Slack
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Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP

Hacklang at Slack: A Better PHP

@Scott Sandler
How and why Slack migrated to Hack, the benefits it gave us, and things to consider for your own codebase.
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A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack

A Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack

@Madeline Shortt
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and our current shelter in place orders in San Francisco.
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Scaling Slack’s Job Queue

Scaling Slack’s Job Queue

@Slack Engineering
Robustly Handling Billions of Tasks in Milliseconds Using Kafka and Redis
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