SREcon24 Americas - Thawing the Great Code Slush

SREcon24 Americas - Thawing the Great Code Slush

Maude Lemaire, Slack

October 2020 wasn't a great month for Slack. Plagued with multiple hours-long outages, our engineering leadership team called for a code slush: all pull requests to our build and configuration mono-repo, aptly named "chef-repo", would need to be reviewed live, over Zoom, by a change advisory board (CAB) until further notice.

Five months later, CAB was still alive and well. We'd made some ergonomic improvements to the process, but …

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