Real-time Messaging
Did you know that ground stations transmit signals to satellites 22,236 miles above the equator in geostationary orbits, and that those signals are th…
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How Slack Built Shared Channels
Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps
Things aren’t always what they seem in this place, so you can’t take anything for granted.
Flannel: An Application-Level Edge Cache to Make Slack Scale
Professor Robin Dunbar, when studying Neolithic farming villages and primate troupes in the 90s, theorized that the maximum number of stable relations…
Making Slack Feel Like Slack
Our plans for deduplicating client code and improving edge caching