Rafael Chacón Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present and future of Dat
A wall of hard drives! by Scott Schiller licensed under Creative Commons. Cropped. How does a company know when it has been hacked? Let’s list some ways, in order of best case to worst case: The company’s employees notice something strange A 3rd party contacts the company because they notice something strange Hacker(s) contact the company because they want them to notice something strange They don
A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on. Conventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more product
The build tools of yore: a Loom with Jacquard machine attached webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the ocean of third-party tooling can make it difficult to optimize. Poor performance is the norm and not the exception. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and so — after many hours of research, trial, and
Recently Slack on the desktop has been going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of flailing limbs and pitch squeaks, ours has manifested in ways rather more grim: inexplicably failing to render content, reloading during common operations, and error screens that aren’t actionable. The only silver lining has been being on the receiving end of some absolutely savage burns: Kinda seems like that
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Trust the Compiler When Brendan Eich created the very first version of JavaScript for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in merely ten days, it’s likely that he did not expect how far the Slack Desktop App would take his invention: We use one JavaScript code base to build a multi-threaded desktop application, routinely interacting with native code, targeting Windows, macOS
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