How Slack refactored its million-line codebase

How Slack refactored its million-line codebase

by Maude Lemaire
Released May 2019
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 0636920452638

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How do you refactor major, core functionality in a million-line codebase without disrupting the entire system? Maude Lemaire explains how Slack overhauled channels and shares the many obstacles the company overcame to boost both application performance and company-wide developer productivity (with only a few hiccups).

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  1. How Slack refactored its million-line codebase

Product information

  • Title: How Slack refactored its million-line codebase
  • Author(s): Maude Lemaire
  • Release date: May 2019
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0636920452638