Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
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Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#2Hello HN! We’re really excited to share this with you all. If we’ve missed any key details, or if you’d like to add a new event to the timeline, email stackhistory@stackshare.io and we will update it asap. Have a great weekend!
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#3I find it weird that slack has this unintuitive way of signing into my workspaces, that user experience made me stay away as much as possible. I don't know why they don't make it easy to stay, harder to leave!
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#4I’ve always admired Slack’s pragmatic choice for LAMP, despite the amount of slack it gets (pun intended). Despite its reputation, it still has an amazing community, ecosystem, and tooling to get shit done.
I’m currently working with Flask/Postgres and it’s simply lacking when you need to scale it (in terms of performance/team size/code size) and there’s not great tooling to take it to the next level. Can’t wait to get back to Laravel on my next project.
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#5What's interesting is that Slack (the company) was founded in 2009 and yet the initial release of Slack was in 2013. That's 4 years of development, that seems like quite a long time.
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#6Is Hack/HHVM really being used much anymore? I was under the impression PHP7 pretty much reduced the advantages (types, speed).
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#7What's interesting is that Slack (the company) was founded in 2009 and yet the initial release of Slack was in 2013. That's 4 years of development, that seems like quite a long time.
Well it says it was initially an internal tool for a different startup.
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#8What's interesting is that Slack (the company) was founded in 2009 and yet the initial release of Slack was in 2013. That's 4 years of development, that seems like quite a long time.
Slack: They first built a game, it didn't do well, so they pivoted to focus on the message system they built for the game.
Flickr: They first built a game, it didn't do well, so they pivoted to focus on the image hosting they built for the game.
Games are hard.
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#9I'm curious if Slack ever considered using XMPP in their stack for core chat? As an outsider, it seems XMPP would fit like a glove (even signing in to a work "domain" screams XMPP).
Re: Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
#10Considering how experienced Slack appeared to be with Elasticsearch by 2017, why did they choose Solr for search?