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Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD

Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD

@Frank Chen
How Slack increased developer productivity and prevented cascading internal failures by implementing orchestration-level circuit breakers
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Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack

Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack

@Carlos Valdez@Frank Chen
A story of evolving socio-technical workflows that increased developer velocity and redefined confident testing and deploy workflows at Slack.
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All Hands on Deck

All Hands on Deck

@Ryan Katkov
What does Slack do when Slack goes down?
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A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack

A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack

@Laura Nolan
On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. This is a detailed look into the technical issues that caused it.
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