December 14, 2021 11 min read @Clément Labbe A Simple Kubernetes Admission Webhook While adding a recent feature to our Kubernetes compute platform, we had the need to mutate newly-created pods…
December 2, 2021 5 min read @Tejas Mehta Going from Coder to Slack Engineer Over 70% of the files uploaded on Slack are images, and over 75% of those images are screenshots. What this…
November 29, 2021 18 min read @Rafael Elvira@Laura Nolan The Case of the Recursive Resolvers On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for…
November 10, 2021 3 min read @Zac Sweers Developing in the Open We use plenty of open source tools at Slack and we’ve benefited immensely from the wider Android, Kotlin,…
November 4, 2021 7 min read How Two Interns Are Helping Secure Millions of Lines of Code At Slack, proactively securing our systems is a top priority. One way we achieve this is by automating the…
October 20, 2021 13 min read @Archie Gunasekara Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack – A Retrospective About a year ago, I wrote a blog post called Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack. In it, we…
October 7, 2021 11 min read @Frank Chen Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development…
September 7, 2021 9 min read @Catherine Yu Behind the Scenes of Slack’s Acquisition Announcement On July 21st, 2021, Slack officially became a part of Salesforce at the price tag of $27.7 billion. This was…