BuildRock: A Build Platform at Slack

BuildRock: A Build Platform at Slack

摘要

Our build platform is an essential piece of delivering code to production efficiently and safely at Slack. Over time it has undergone a lot of changes, and in 2021 the Build team started looking at the long-term vision.

Some questions the Build team wanted to answer were:

• When should we invest in modernizing our build platform?
• How do we deal with our build platform tech debt issues?
• Can we move faster and safer while building and deploying code?
• Can we invest in the same without impacting our existing production builds?
• What do we do with existing build methodologies?

In this article we will explore how the Build team at Slack is investing in developing a build platform to solve some existing issues and to handle scale for future.