Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

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Brought to You By: • Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable. • Entire – The Git forge for agent-human collaboration. Built for the scale and throughput of agentic coding. — What is involved in scaling up large, popular products at places like Slack and GitHub? We get an insider’s view on this from Maude Lemaire , a principal engineer and author of ‘ Refactoring at Scale: Regaining Control of Your Codebase .’ She spent nearly eight years at Slack, where she led the backend performance in…