Slack Engineering
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A place for opportunities at Slack, blog posts about the engineering practice here, and other like-minded things. Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information and tools together to get work done. Slack is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.
Slack Engineering
3w ago
Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big - hundreds of developers create hundreds of changes every week. Dep ..read more
Slack Engineering
4M ago
We are heavy users of Amazon Compute Compute Cloud (EC2) at Slack — we run approximately 60,000 EC2 instances across 17 AWS regions while operating hu ..read more
Slack Engineering
5M ago
Slack users have more power than ever to automate routine tasks and processes, saving themselves time each day. Workflow Builder, a task automation to ..read more
Slack Engineering
5M ago
On Thursday, 12 Oct. 2022, the EMEA part of the Datastores team — the team responsible for Slack’s database clusters — was having an onsite day in Ams ..read more
Slack Engineering
6M ago
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 ..read more
Slack Engineering
6M ago
Introduction Ever wondered what it's like to intern as a software engineer at Slack? Picture yourself on the famous Ohana floor—the 61st floor of the ..read more
Slack Engineering
7M ago
Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are ..read more
Slack Engineering
7M ago
Embarking on a journey Stepping out of SFO with the familiarity of the fogginess of the city, my story at Slack unfolds once again. As a return inte ..read more
Slack Engineering
8M ago
Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit ..read more