March 23, 2021 6 min read @Slack Engineering Reducing Slack’s memory footprint Our desktop app is the most widely used and most capable Slack client that we offer. For many of our customers,…
June 29, 2020 10 min read @Scott Schiller Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy: Part 2 This is a continuation of Part 1, covering some highlights and lessons learned from a refactor of the way the…
June 29, 2020 13 min read @Scott Schiller Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy Software performance is like a series of card tricks: Do less up front. Be really lazy. Prepare in the…
June 29, 2020 9 min read @Mark Christian Getting to Slack faster with incremental boot At Slack, we’re on a mission to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more…
June 29, 2020 9 min read @Slack Engineering Making Slack Feel Like Slack Systems problems are rooted in impossible dreams. Your file system wants to give you infinite, fast, durable…