Shipyard: How We Built Slack’s Next-Generation EC2 Platform
Over the past few years, we’ve been on a journey to modernise how we run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at Slack.…
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Agentic Testing: Where Agents Fit in the E2E Testing Stack
Abstract Agent-driven end-to-end (E2E) tests add a new exploratory layer to testing, but should they replace traditional…
From Custom to Open: Scalable Network Probing and HTTP/3 Readiness with…
At Slack, we recently unified fragmented probing into a standardized system that improves reliability, simplifies operations, and…
Building Slack’s Anomaly Event Response
Security should work while you do. By closing the gap between detection and response, we've neutralized the delay that…
Managing context in long-run agentic applications
Excerpt In complex, long-running agentic systems, maintaining alignment and coherent reasoning between agents requires careful…
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption
This post builds on our earlier work modernising Slack’s Chef infrastructure. Instead of a disruptive migration to Policyfiles,…
Astra Dynamic Chunks: How We Saved by Redesigning a Key Part of Astra
Introduction Slack handles a lot of log data. In fact, we consume over 6 million log messages per second. That equates to over 10…
Deploy Safety: Reducing customer impact from change
It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact…
Build better software to build software better
We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help…
Streamlining Security Investigations with Agents
We built an agentic security investigation service to help us research alerts as part of our mission to keep Slack secure and…
From SSH to REST: A Security-Driven Modernization of Slack’s EMR Data Pipelines
Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re…
How Slack Rebuilt Notifications 📣
How Slack rebuilt its notification system from the ground up by designing for clarity and calm to reduce noise
Android VPAT journey
Background A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that outlines how well a product aligns with…