Stack History: A Timeline of Slack's Tech Stack Evolution

 By StackShare - 2021-01-07

Description

The story of Slacks’s major technology decisions over time. It’s a story that underlies all other Slack narratives, and one that powers its meteoric growth even today.

Summary

  • A Timeline of Slack's Tech Stack Evolution By StackShare As an organization and product, Slack has grown by leaps and bounds.
  • Megan Anctil, a senior engineer on the Technical Operations team at Slack gave a talk at an O’Reilly Velocity Conference sharing pain points and lessons learned at wrangling known technologies such as Icinga, Graphite, Grafana, and the Elastic Stack to best fit the company’s use cases.
  • This framework is important because it can help with repair and recovery from an outage or bug, it can help ensure effective data migration through scripts that test the code post-migration, and find bugs throughout the database.

 

Topics

  1. Backend (0.44)
  2. Management (0.22)
  3. Frontend (0.2)

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