@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…
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@Carlos Valdez@Frank Chen
Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack
In 2021, we changed developer testing workflows for Webapp, Slack’s main monorepo, from predominantly testing…
@Archie Gunasekara
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective
About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we…
@Frank Chen
Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve
Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development…
@Sarah Henkens
Email Classification
With the release of Slack Connect, people can now collaborate both with internal employees and external…
@Ariane van der Steldt@Radha Kumari
Migrating Millions of Concurrent Websockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the…
@Laura Nolan
Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th…
@Slack Engineering
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…
