Scaling Slack

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Bing Wei examines the limitations that Slack's backend ran into and how they overcame them to scale from supporting small teams to serving large organizations of hundreds and thousands of users. She tells stories about the edge cache service, real-time messaging system and how they evolved for major product efforts including Grid and Shared Channels.

This presentation was recorded at QCon San Francisco 2017.

[stephenpaek]

Still one of the funniest moments in a tech conference at 11:36 😃