Slack's first workday of 2021
How the jump from the quietest week of the year to one of the busiest overloaded a self-scaling network hub on 4 January 2021, took Slack's dashboards down and stalled its own scale-up.
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WS · Slack's first workday of 2021 overloaded a network hub that was meant to scale itself
From the quietest time of the year to one of the busiest. Overnight.
Quietest to busiest, overnight
Slack's engineers say they go from their quietest time of the whole year to one of their biggest days, quite literally overnight.
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