August 22, 2023 9 min read @Cooper Bethea Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a…
April 11, 2023 8 min read @Sameera Thangudu Real-time Messaging Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary…
March 21, 2023 11 min read @Tricia Bogen Technology Lifecycle This blog post discusses the strategies that Slack uses to manage the lifecycle (development, support, and…
January 25, 2023 10 min read @Archie Gunasekara@Andrew Martin What We Learned from Building GovSlack Slack launched GovSlack in July 2022. With GovSlack, government agencies, and those they work with, can enable…
October 18, 2022 16 min read @Archie Gunasekara How We Use Terraform At Slack At Slack, we use Terraform for managing our Infrastructure, which runs on AWS, DigitalOcean, NS1, and GCP. Even…
August 15, 2023 12 min read @Katrina Ni@Aaron Maurer Recommend API Slack, as a product, presents many opportunities for recommendation, where we can make suggestions to simplify…
August 18, 2022 19 min read @Frank Chen Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you…
March 16, 2022 12 min read @Javier Turegano Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform…