Slack.engineering Website Review

Slack believes in making our users’ working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. This is true whether they are at Re-architecting Slack’s Workspace Preferences: How to Move to an EAV Model to Support Scalability Re-architecting Slack’s Workspace Preferences: How to Move to an EAV Model to Support Scalability Scaling is hard. Design decisions that initially seemed reasonable break down with little warning, and suddenly even the simplest How Slack unified performance metrics across Desktop, iOS, and Android Digging through a large codebase to locate a bug can feel incredibly overwhelming, especially for a junior developer. While some might… 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. You know how to design a good API, but how do you evolve that API when it’s time to make changes? We’ve faced this with each Keep webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend as*ets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the… How we integrated UI testing into the Android developer workflow at Slack Robustly Handling Billions of Tasks in Milliseconds Using Kafka and Redis Growing Pains: Migrating Slack’s Desktop App to BrowserView Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch squeaks, ours has… A redesign powered by CSS Grid and optimized for performance and accessibility. LibSlack: the C++ library at the foundation of our client application architecture Slack ships its client application on many different platforms — we currently support Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and At Slack, the size and scope of the data we expose via our APIs has changed dramatically since the product first launched. Endpoints Maximum Warp: Building Migrations for Slack Enterprise Grid