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Shipyard: How We Built Slack’s Next-Generation EC2 Platform
Slack engineers built Shipyard, a next-generation EC2 platform that treats infrastructure as deployable artifacts rather than mutable instances, allowing for service-level deployment primitives and tight integration with build and orchestration systems. Shipyard provides key capabilities such as multi-architecture and multi-OS support, metrics-driven deployments with safety controls, and simplified configuration management. By using a layered image approach and applying configuration during lifecycle phases, Shipyard minimizes background load and makes system behavior easier to reason about.
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