performance Archives - Slack Engineering

Building Background Effects for Clips

@Albert Xing

A real-time, web-based video processing pipeline

@Shreya Ramesh@Melissa Khuat

Building a culture of performance with Koi Pond

@Anuj Nair

Our quest to streamline product development, improve productivity, and automatically adopt best performance practices on the frontend.

@Yingyu Sun@Mike Demmer

Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.

@Jim Whimpey

Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.

@Jeremy Rose

You might have used DevTools to profile your JavaScript. But there’s a lot that DevTools can’t tell you.

@Liang Shi

How Slack unified performance metrics across Desktop, iOS, and Android

@Mina Markham

A redesign powered by CSS Grid and optimized for performance and accessibility.