The Slack 2/22/22 Outage

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:07:02 GMT

<p>On 2/22/2022 Slack experienced a 3 hours outage from 6AM to 9AM PST because of a configuration change. That change lead to increase load to their database infrastructure which causes queries to starve. Lets discuss</p> <p><a href="https://status.slack.com/2022-02-22">https://status.slack.com/2022-02-22</a></p>