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Tracing At Slack: Thinking In Causal Graphs

- Suman Karumuri tl;dr: Suman describes the architecture of Slack's tracing system, which produces ~330M traces and ~8.5B spans per day.

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A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day At Slack

- Laura Nolan tl;dr: "This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020."

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Deploys At Slack

- Michael Deng Jonathan Chang tl;dr: "We had to invest in greater visibility and reliability in order to accommodate the amount of work being done. This post will outline our process and a few of the major projects that got us to where we are."

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