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Grab Employs LLMs for Conversional Data Discovery with GPT-4, Glean and Slack
Grab responded to the challenges of finding valuable datasets among 200k+ tables by enhancing Hubble, the data discovery tool, with new capabilities leveraging GenAI technologies. The company reduced the data discovery process by incorporating LLMs to generate dataset documentation and created a Slack bot to bring effective data discovery to data consumers.
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Slack Develops Bedrock Operator for Kubernetes StatefulSets
Slack, the popular workplace communication platform, has developed a custom Kubernetes operator to address limitations in managing StatefulSet deployments. The Bedrock Rollout Operator offers improved control and features for deploying stateful applications in Kubernetes clusters.
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Slack Combines ASTs with Large Language Models to Automatically Convert 80% of 15,000 Unit Tests
Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered automation, Slack's innovative approach resulted in an 80% conversion success rate, significantly reducing the manual effort required.
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Contentsquare Uses Microservices and Apache Kafka for Notification Delivery
Contentsquare needed notification functionality for many use cases within its platform. The company created a generic solution spanning multiple services as part of its microservice architecture. During the implementation, the developers had to improve observability and overcome some scalability challenges.
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StackFeed: Cloud Service Updates as a Service
In the fast-paced field of cloud services, staying current with service updates is often challenging. The recently announced StackFeed aims to address this issue, especially for software architects managing multi-cloud architectures. Architects select cloud services they're interested in, and StackFeed generates a customised service update feed consumable using an RSS reader, Slack or Teams.
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Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack
Slack recently described how it sends millions of messages daily in real-time across the globe. The company provides a comprehensive insight into its architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. It highlights the unique challenges posed by delivering real-time messages across different time zones and regions and how Slack's engineers designed the infrastructure to handle them.
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Slack Open Sources Hakana, a Type Checker for Hack Language
Slack has recently open-sourced its type checker, Hakana. Based on Psalm and written in Rust, Hakana’s main objective is to enforce good code quality. Additionally, Hakana can also perform security analysis. Matt Brown, senior staff engineer at Slack, made the announcement in a blog post.
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Slack's Lessons Learned from Supporting Highly Regulated Workloads on AWS GovCloud
Archie Gunasekara, staff software engineer at Slack, and Andrew Martin, staff software engineer at Slack, recently shared their learnings in building GovSlack, an instance of Slack running on the AWS GovCloud region. They shared challenges in adapting to unsupported services, account creation, and account isolation.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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Integrating Continuous Load Testing into Slack Pipeline
Slack has been working on making load testing a core concern for all engineers, not only those focusing on performance, and moving from a reactive approach to performance to a more integrated effort, say Slack engineers Shreya Ramesh and Melissa Khuat.
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How Slack Modernized its Mobile Apps and Went Full Swift on iOS
Slack succeeded in the effort to bring their iOS and Android apps up-to-date and adopt new design trends. Among other things, this enabled a full switch to Swift for iOS and breaking the existing monoliths.
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Email Classification at Slack: Designing an Eventually Consistent Custom Classifier
Slack recently published the details of how it built an email address classification engine that can determine if an email address is internal or external. Slack engineers utilized an eventually consistent near real-time representation of the data in its system and implemented a drift detection mechanism to fix erroneous data, keeping the engine's operation in order.
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Slack Details Its New Role Management Architecture
Slack recently posted a detailed description of the software architecture of its new role management system. Slack needed to build a system that was more flexible than the one it previously had. It created a custom containerized Go-based permission service that integrates with its existing systems over gRPC. As a result, its customers' admins now have granular control over what their users can do.
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Slack Shares Strategy Used to Load-Test New Encryption Service
Slack’s engineering team has revealed the load-testing strategy that has become a critical part of their continuous delivery pipeline, and suggests it promotes greater ownership by engineers. While the Slack engineers stated they had minimal load-testing experience, they built it from scratch using Go and used a methodical approach that offers a roadmap for engineers facing similar challenges.
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Successful Software Rewrites: The Slack for Desktop Case
With Netscape as an example, Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow, posited that rewriting code from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake any software company can make. The recent rewrite of Slack for Desktop seems to indicate otherwise.