Compare the best sourcing tools for recruiters in 2026. Reviews Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Eightfold AI, and Ashby on features and fit. Best sourcing tools for recruiters in 2026 on SitePoint.
#automation
14 posts
20 May
19 May
Compare the best recruiting platforms in 2026. Reviews Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, and Ashby on features, pricing, and fit. Best recruiting platforms in 2026 on SitePoint.
7 Oct 2025
It’s mid 2023 and we’ve identified some opportunities to improve our reliability. Fast forward to January 2025. Customer impact hours are reduced from the peak by 90% and continuing to trend downward. We’re a year and half into the Deploy Safety Program at Slack, improving the way we deploy, uplifting our safety culture and continuing…
22 May 2024
Balancing Old Tricks with New Feats: AI-Powered Conversion From Enzyme to React Testing Library at Slack
SlackUpdate (October 2024): In response to numerous requests from external developers, we have open-sourced a version of our Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL) conversion tool. You can now find it on npm, along with detailed instructions on how to integrate and use it in your projects. In the world of frontend development, one thing remains…
18 Jan 2024
Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big – hundreds of developers create hundreds of changes every week. Deploying at this scale is a unique challenge. When people talk about continuous deployment, they’re often thinking about deploying to systems as soon as changes are ready. They talk about microservices…
5 Dec 2023
Slack users have more power than ever to automate routine tasks and processes, saving themselves time each day. Workflow Builder, a task automation tool built into Slack, has continued to improve since its launch back in 2019. Along with various new steps and triggers, we built a new sidebar section for all available workflow steps.…
24 Jan 2023
Slack launched GovSlack in July 2022. With GovSlack, government agencies, and those they work with, can enable their teams to seamlessly collaborate in their digital headquarters, while keeping security and compliance at the forefront. Using GovSlack includes the following benefits: Supports key government security standards, such as FedRAMP High, DoD IL4, and ITAR Runs in…
25 Oct 2022
At Slack, we use Terraform for managing our Infrastructure, which runs on AWS, DigitalOcean, NS1, and GCP. Even though most of our infrastructure is running on AWS, we have chosen to use Terraform as opposed to using an AWS-native service such as CloudFormation so that we can use a single tool across all of our…
31 Aug 2022
Our build platform is an essential piece of delivering code to production efficiently and safely at Slack. Over time it has undergone a lot of changes, and in 2021 the Build team started looking at the long-term vision. Some questions the Build team wanted to answer were: When should we invest in modernizing our build…
21 Jul 2022
Every codebase starts off small and modern. While it’s still small, the team can easily keep it up-to-date with current standards, upgrade libraries, and handle any code hygiene issues that may arise. Updating the API of a framework you built is easy when it’s only called in a handful of places. However, as the codebase…
5 Apr 2022
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. The DevXp…
16 Nov 2021
UI automation is the most important part of the CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery) process. Integration testing helps you to avoid manual regression testing and improve the application quality. In this post I will explain how to implement UI automation testing to existing Angular projects using the Cypress tool, this is a great alternative for Protractor. Take a look at…
9 Feb 2021
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox and its underlying components for a while. It has proven itself to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues. In general, we apply fuzzing on different levels: there is fuzzing the browser as a whole but a significant amount of time is also spent on fuzzing isolated code (e.g.…