Podcasts

Josh Wills on Building Resilient Data Engineering and Machine Learning Products at Slack

Josh Wills, a software engineer working on data engineering problems at Slack, discusses the Slack data architecture and how they build and observe their pipelines.

Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak Shaving, & Why Diversity Matters for Innovation

Wesley Reisz talks with Jessica Kerr about her focus on developer productivity. Topics include her work at Atomist building Slack Chatbots, an approach to categorizing Yak Shaving (in an effort to prioritize and automate development dependencies), how an innovation culture drives diversity, and, finally, the role of 10x developers in the lifecycle of a company or product.

Keith Adams on the Architecture of Slack, Using MySql, Edge Caching, & the Backend Messaging Server

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well-known for the HipHop VM. Adams presented How Slack Works at QCon SanFrancisco 2016.