The Infoq Podcast

In this week’s podcast, QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well-known for the HipHop VM [hhvm.com]. Adams presented How Slack Works at QCon SanFrancisco 2016. Why listen to this podcast: - Group messaging succeeds when it feels like a place for members to gather, rather than just a tool - Having opt-in group membership scales better than having to define a group on the fly, like a mailing list instead of individually adding people to a mail - Choosing availability over consistency is sometimes the right choice for particular use cases - Consistency can be recovered after the fact with custom conflict resolution tools - Latency is important and can be solved by having proxies or edge applications closer to the user Notes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/keith-adams 3m:30s Voice and video interactions are impacted by latency; the same is true of messaging clients 4m: