Published inSeveral People Are CodingScaling End-to-End User Interface TestsBy Kavita Chodavarapu and Bryant UngJun 11, 2020Jun 11, 2020
Published inSeveral People Are CodingA Day in the Life of a Backend Product Engineer at Slack**Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak and our current shelter in place orders in San Francisco.Apr 6, 2020A response icon2Apr 6, 2020A response icon2
Published inSeveral People Are CodingDeploys at SlackDeploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability.Mar 29, 2020A response icon12Mar 29, 2020A response icon12
Published inSeveral People Are CodingHow Big Technical Changes Happen at SlackWe want to catch revolutions at the right time, while limiting the energy we spend chasing fads. What strategy can we follow to ensure…Feb 13, 2020A response icon4Feb 13, 2020A response icon4
Published inSeveral People Are CodingA Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at SlackThis is the second in a series of posts describing the everyday life of Engineers in different parts of Slack’s ecosystem.Feb 5, 2020A response icon4Feb 5, 2020A response icon4
Published inSeveral People Are CodingHow Slack Built Shared ChannelsBuilding shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.Sep 16, 2019A response icon3Sep 16, 2019A response icon3
Published inSeveral People Are CodingInterning on Slack’s Product Security TeamDetecting vulnerabilities in Javascript/npm packages with daily scans/Sep 4, 2019A response icon1Sep 4, 2019A response icon1
Published inSeveral People Are CodingService Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline SupportUsing a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.Aug 29, 2019A response icon3Aug 29, 2019A response icon3
Published inSeveral People Are CodingWhen a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktopby Mark Christian and Johnny RodgersJul 22, 2019A response icon48Jul 22, 2019A response icon48
Published inSeveral People Are Coding🏄♀️ Surf’s Up! Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load TestingShipping features with confidence and finding bottlenecks before our users doJun 20, 2019Jun 20, 2019