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SlackCompany

Workplace messaging and collaboration platform

5 things

HackSoftware

liked

Hack makes our developers faster by improving productivity through better tooling.

Why Slack migrated its PHP codebase to Hack

slack.engineering ↗·2020-04-14Wrong?

quic-goSoftware

recommended

After careful consideration, they chose quic-go to serve as the foundation for the new functionality.

Slack on picking quic-go to add HTTP/3 probing to Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

slack.engineering ↗·2026-03-31Wrong?

VitessSoftware

recommended

Vitess is the present and future of Datastores for Slack and continues to be a major success story for us.

Slack's migration from active-active MySQL clusters to Vitess

slack.engineering ↗·2020-12-01Wrong?

KarpenterSoftware

uses

Kubernetes worker fleets use Karpenter for lifecycle-driven updates.

Slack's Shipyard EC2 platform, on how Kubernetes worker fleets are updated

slack.engineering ↗·2026-07-14Wrong?

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