Slack's Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure
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How Slack delivers messages in real-time to millions of users. Shows WebSocket Gateway for persistent connections, Channel Service for message routing, MySQL with Vitess sharding for message storage, Flannel for client-side caching, Kafka for event streaming, and Elasticsearch for search.
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How Slack delivers messages in real-time to millions of users. Shows WebSocket Gateway for persistent connections, Channel Service for message routing, MySQL with Vitess sharding for message storage, Flannel for client-side caching, Kafka for event streaming, and Elasticsearch for search.
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