Scaling Slack - The Good, the Unexpected, and the Road Ahead

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Mike Demmer talks about the major changes that Slack has made to the service architecture to meet the needs for larger and larger enterprise customers. Demmer presents 3 of these changes: decomposition of the real-time message service, client-side lazy loading via edge caching, and scaling the primary data storage tier with fine-grained horizontal sharding using Vitess.

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[at_tap]

Great content. There seems to be lot of people in the audience with cough issue, had a hard time to understand few sentences

[foreverursabhi]

The audio well downhill at 11:38, and all the coughing isn't helping follow the talk. If you're coughing so much, show some courtesy and leave the room.

[tejamenneni]

How do you add jitter to client to spread out load?

[RomanScherbatyuk]

did you think about nosql db and akka way approach?