How Slack’s Own Developers Use Slack
Best practice in our engineering teams
To demonstrate the value Slack brings teams, it’s often easier to show rather than tell. As a company with engineering teams of our own looking to realise the full value of Slack in everything they do, we thought it made sense to turn the spotlight on ourselves. So, here’s the story of how Slack’s developers use Slack every day. Every team is different, so what works for us won’t necessarily work for everyone.
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At Slack we split our teams according to vertical pillars instead:
- Platform The team responsible for external dev-facing features like APIs
- Core The team that works on Slack as most users know it: the core product
- Enterprise The team that makes sure Slack scales for big businesses
- Infrastructure The team responsible for the back-end side of things