Best of SlackApril 2023

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    How Slack sends Millions of Messages in Real Time

    How Slack sends millions of messages in Real Time Plus, how Jane Street writes tests, challenges with caching, why tail latencies matter and more. How Slack Sends Millions of Messages in Real time using Channel, Gateway and Presence Servers Consistent Hashing to map Channel IDs to Channel Servers.

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    Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack

    Slack provides a comprehensive insight into its Pub/Sub architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. Slack's engineers say the company plans to enhance its architecture to serve a more significant customer base. The system's backend is composed of several services, including stateful, in-memory servers.

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    Avatar of slackSlack engineering·3y

    Real-time Messaging

    Slack Engineering describes the architecture that we use to send real-time messages at this scale. Slack sends millions of messages every day across millions of channels in real time all around the world. We have a draining mechanism for region failures that seamlessly switches the users in a bad region to the nearest good region.

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    Communities - Meet your new Professional Network, now with Communities

    Communities is Entre's new feature within their professional networking app. It combines the best aspects and functionality of linkedin, slack and zoom to provide an all-in-one user experience for tech professionals and entrepreneurs. Grow traffic and awareness with packages starting at $1k Support is great.

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    Ai Intern - ChatGPT powered Personal Slack Assistant

    Ai Intern - ChatGPT powered Personal Slack Assistant. We're considering new features such as summarizing threads and performing actions on messages from other Slack apps like Calendar, Jira, Github etc. We're also considering new tools like Calendar and Jira.