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6 Nov 2025

David Reed (he/his) 15 min read

We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code, faster. But we had one huge problem: builds took 60 minutes. With a build that slow, the whole pipeline gets less agile, and feedback doesn’t come to engineers until…

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14 Apr 2025

Dan Carton 5 min read

In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time…

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2 Dec 2024

Fabien RAYNAUD 3 min read

Conduct a technical migration within less than 6 months — Part 3 (final) based on Next.js migration, performed at JobTeaser What is this 3-parts article about: sharing my own experience with handling a technical migration 📖 some additional elements that I find relevant and could help (identified with 📖 emoji) but not personally tested What this presentation is NOT about:…

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Fabien RAYNAUD 3 min read

Conduct a technical migration within less than 6 months — Part 2 based on Next.js migration, performed at JobTeaser What is this 3-parts article about: sharing my own experience with handling a technical migration 📖 some additional elements that I find relevant and could help (identified with 📖 emoji) but not personally tested What this presentation is NOT about: technical…

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Fabien RAYNAUD 4 min read

Conduct a technical migration within less than 6 months — Part 1 based on Next.js migration, performed at JobTeaser What is this 3-parts article about: sharing my own experience with handling a technical migration 📖 some additional elements that I find relevant and could help (identified with 📖 emoji) but not personally tested What this presentation is NOT about: technical…

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