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Performance — Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD

Slowing Down to Speed Up – Circuit Breakers for Slack’s CI/CD

What happens when your distributed service has challenges with stampeding herds of internal requests? How do you prevent cascading failures between internal services? How might you re-architect your workflows when naive horizontal or vertical scaling reaches their respective limits? These were the challenges facing Slack engineers during their day-to-day development workflows in 2020. Multiple int

FCFrank Chen·August 19, 2022Performance
SRE & Ops — Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve

Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve

Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development Engineering department supports engineers throughout Slack that develop, build, test, and release high-quality services to Slack’s customers. In this article, we share how teams at Slack evolved our internal tooling and made infrastructure bets.…

FCFrank Chen·October 7, 2021SRE & Ops