June 7, 2022 7 min read @Albert Xing Building Background Effects for Clips Last September, Slack released Clips, allowing users to capture video, audio, and screen recordings in messages…
April 28, 2022 15 min read @Shreya Ramesh@Melissa Khuat Continuous Load Testing Building load test infrastructure is tricky and poses many questions. How can we identify performance…
June 18, 2020 8 min read @Anuj Nair Gantry: Slack’s Fast-booting Frontend Framework At any given time, Slack has many product teams working on different features. This allows us to build in…
June 18, 2020 12 min read @Yingyu Sun@Mike Demmer How Slack Built Shared Channels Written with contributions from the Shared Channels Team. Slack was originally built to be the collaboration hub…
June 18, 2020 9 min read @Jim Whimpey Service Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support We recently rolled out a new version of Slack on the desktop, and one of its headlining features is a faster…
May 19, 2020 8 min read @Jeremy Rose Chrome Tracing for Fun and Profit You might have used Chrome’s Developer Tools to profile your JavaScript to improve performance or find…
June 23, 2020 13 min read @Liang Shi Unified Cross-Platform Performance Metrics With the fast pace of life today, people expect information to be available to them at the speed of light,…
June 25, 2020 9 min read @Mina Markham Rebuilding slack.com In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes.…