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, it is one of just a few apps they keep…
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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 Slack desktop client fetches messages. I…
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 background.
Be one step ahead of …
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 productive — improving the performance of our products fa…
Making Slack Feel Like Slack
Our plans for deduplicating client code and improving edge caching