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Learn how our team built a proactive defense mechanism to automatically identify threat behaviors and respond in real-time. Instead of waiting days or hours for human intervention, the Anomaly Event Response responds in minutes. slack.engineering/building-s…
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What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between services? We share how circuit breakers helped prevent internal cascading failures at @slackeng @SlackHQ! bit.ly/cicd_cb
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a new research paper by Slack engineering outlines a #metrics storage engine that's better than @PrometheusIO. Check out OpenObservability Talks with @mansu to hear about it: youtu.be/IvidkV3TfYg?t=919 or on the podcast apps: ow.ly/3h6A50I5b6X @SlackEng @OpenObserv #devops
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What does it take to build #observability in web-scale company such as @SlackHQ, @Pinterest & @Twitter? Tune in to OpenObservability Talks @OpenObserv to hear it first hand from @mansu @SlackEng @TwitterEng @PinterestEng Live-streaming 16 Feb, 11 AM PST youtu.be/IvidkV3TfYg
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🎉 slack.engineering/infrastruc… A deep dive on how we crafted an order of magnitude change in our spend (10x reduction compared to baseline growth) over the last two years with iterative understanding and changes in Slack’s Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure. 1/
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'As an organization grows, an engineering leader’s role in a company needs to transition' - @iamcal of @SlackEng

Slack’s scaling journey

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"The Four Agile Values and Slack" by Ashoke Chakrabarti @brianriggsbee Elizabeth Beddiaf. A great article by @slackeng! lnkd.in/ggn8AU8h
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‘Your team care a lot more about technical debt when you are able to frame it in the terms of things that they care about’ - @QcMaude from @SlackEng
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Curious to learn how @SlackEng implements Role Management & Authorization and missed yesterday's @TwitterSpaces chat with @jakebyman and Aish Dahal? Don't worry! Got you covered 🎉youtube.com/watch?v=-iVBsaga…
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1/ In the 2nd Authorization @TwitterSpaces chat we'll learn how @SlackHQ designed, implemented and rolled out a big change at scale: their new authorization features On Wed at 4:30 PM PDT I'll chat with @jakebyman & Aish Dahal, two @SlackHQEng engineers who worked on this
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A decent number of Slack's features were once ideas and prototypes at our internal hackathon. We've been running hackathons since 2016, learned a few things along the way, and wrote up 9 tips for throwing a successful (and fun!) one: slack.com/blog/collaboration…
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Performance problems can be a real struggle to track down, especially if they're hard to reproduce. We're using distributed tracing to understand work that spans multiple services and the client. Our colleague Justin wrote up how we're actually doing it: slack.engineering/client-tra…
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That high school student was @_clavin, now one of our @electronjs engineers!
A high school student was submitting great PR’s to Slack’s open source projects. That turned into an internship and now, a full time job. stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/2…
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January 4th was the first working day of 2021 for many people. As the sun rose in the Americas, so did our internal error rates. Every incident is an opportunity to learn, and an unplanned investment in future reliability. Here's what we learned: slack.engineering/slacks-out…
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