Why did Slack go down in Jan 2021? - #6
Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #6. This week, Tom Kobialka, takes us through how the popular business communication platform, Slack, suffered a disastrous outage on 4th Jan 2021 and what could have been done to prevent it.
In Today's Learning Session:
- The origins of the Slack outage on 4th Jan 2021 and the ensuing twitter storm.
- Deep dive into how Slack's app architecture works.
- Websocket connection of clients to a message server
- How all regular Web API requests and messages are eventually handled by the backend server.
- The explosive growth of Slack.
- Slack vs. quota limits and their solution.
- AWS VPC Peering and Transit Gateway
- The timeline of the outage
- Analysis of blame: Slack vs. AWS
- Q&A from our developers.
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