Prototyping at Slack
Over the years at Slack — usually during periods of high growth — teams have defaulted to working in a waterfall where an idea is Read More
Author: Slack Engineering
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Foundations Engineer at Slack
6:28 am First alarm rings. Snooze. 6:30 am Second alarm rings. Snooze. 6:34 am Final alarm rings and I know this is the last one, Read More
How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
Photo by Farzad Nazifi on Unsplash Keith Adams and Johnny Rodgers Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that Read More
A Day in the Life of a Frontend Product Engineer at Slack
From Soraya García on Unsplash 6:45am The sound of coffee grinding wakes me up 15 minutes before my alarm. I’m not a morning person, but I Read More
How Slack Built Shared Channels
Photo by Alina Grubnyak By Yingyu Sun and Mike Demmer, with contributions from the Shared Channels Team Slack was originally built to be the collaboration hub for Read More
Interning on Slack’s Product Security Team
by Ryan Slama and Matt Dzwonczyk The Slack Internship — Matt’s First Time at Slack I’m Matt and I’m a senior Computer Science student at North Carolina State Read More
Service Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support
Photo by Denys Nevozhai By Jim Whimpey We recently rolled out a new version of Slack on the desktop, and one of its headlining features is a Read More
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
by Mark Christian and Johnny Rodgers A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, Read More
♀️ Surf’s Up! Preparing for Huge Waves of Traffic via Load Testing
by Serry Park, Arka Ganguli, and Joe Smith. Over 10 million users across the globe rely on Slack everyday to collaborate with their colleagues. As our Read More
Refactoring Backend Engineering Hiring at Slack
by Chase Rutherford-Jenkins, Duretti Hirpa, and William Kimeria For anyone who’s ever been involved in the hiring process, it’s no easy feat — particularly in a growing company. Read More