Slack Feature Trails

This thread tracks the evolution of Slack's EC2 platform, starting with the development of 'Shipyard,' Slack's next-generation EC2 platform. Initial posts detailed Shipyard's architecture, motivations, and challenges. This post details the foundational build of the Shipyard platform, outlining its architecture, the technical decisions made, and the challenges overcome in its creation. This post also details the integration of scalable network probing and HTTP/3 readiness using Prometheus within Shipyard.