Scaling Slack • Keith Adams • GOTO 2018

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Keith Adams - Chief Architect at Slack
ABSTRACT
Slack is the market leader in persistent group messaging, supporting millions of users daily, for hours each day. Slack's core messaging experience is connection-oriented, maintaining long-lived, stateful sessions to enable a low-latency, highly present user experience. Scaling a connection-oriented service presents challenges that differ from those of a typical, request-based web service.
In this talk we'll explore the evolution to date [...]
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[@jmitesh01]

E2E arguments in system design - what are you trying to solve depends on user.

[@VictorMartinez-zf6dt]

why not just use queues or write to a persistence log? -.o

[@CaseyStrouse]

I spent way too many hours of my life on IRC, too but have to disagree with you about it being so ephemeral. We used BNC software and channel logging bots to always be able to see what happened while we were AFK. I do get that there are some differences but it's pretty much what we had going on Efnet in the 2003-5 period that I was always online.

[@kenichimori8533]

Taskaling d format alphabet.