Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Migrating Slack Airflow to Python 3 Without Disruption
Last year, we migrated Airflow from 1.8 to 1.10 at Slack (see here) and we did a “Big bang” upgrade because of the constraints we had. This year, due …
Bridging the Gap Between Slack and Email Users
Architecture of Email Bridge
Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack
At Slack, we’ve gone through an evolution of our AWS infrastructure from the early days of running a few hand-built EC2 instances, all the way to prov…
The Unsuspecting Beauty & Complexity of Web Forms
Together, we’ll explore the must-add features Slack uses to build web forms that generate leads for successful deals and reflect on the impact they’ve had.
Starting an Initiative
Thoughts on starting and continuing an engineering-driven initiative
Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs
“Why is it slow?'' is the hardest problem to debug in a complex distributed system like Slack. To diagnose a slow-loading channel with over a hundred …