How Slack Didn't Crash When The World Went Remote

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How Slack Didn't Crash When The World Went Remote

When COVID hit in March 2020, the entire world went remote overnight. For Slack, this meant their database traffic exploded by 50% in just ONE WEEK with zero warning.

This is the untold engineering story of how they survived the biggest stress test in tech history.

00:00 - Intro

00:26 - How Slack Became So Popular

01:25 - Slack Started as a LAMP App

02:27 - How Slack Organized it's Data

04:12 - How Their Infrastructure Slowed Them Down

05:36 - The Breaking Point

06:19 - The Options They Presented

07:28 - Option 3...

07:37 - Why YouTube Created Vitess

09:35 - The Vitess Prototype

11:29 - The Migration

13:05 - The Rise of COVID

16:00 - Vitess to the Rescue

17:09 - Reflecting on Scale

18:10 - Become a Channel Member

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