Slack

Flannel: An Application-Level Edge Cache to Make Slack Scale

Slack added Flannel, an edge cache that serves user and channel data lazily so huge teams no longer need giant boot payloads.

Published
2017-05-31
Scale
Not stated in source
Techniques
edge caching lazy loading
Stack
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