Engineering at Slack

Slack modernized its data pipelines by replacing 700+ SSH-based operators with a REST-based approach for improved security and scalability.

This post discusses challenges and mechanisms for maintaining alignment and coherent reasoning in long-running agentic systems.

Slack describes migrating from custom network probing tools to a scalable Prometheus-based solution for HTTP/3 readiness.

Slack rebuilt its notification system from the ground up to reduce overwhelm and improve user experience.

Slack's Security Engineering team uses agent-based systems to streamline security investigations from billions of daily events.

This post details Slack's journey to create an Android Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) to document accessibility standards.

Slack's build pipeline team reduced build times from 60 minutes to improve developer velocity and feedback loops.

Slack advanced its Chef infrastructure to a multi-stack model, focusing on safety and minimal disruption during migration.