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Does Slack really use LAMP?

Why are you surprised? LAMP stack, only at this scale is not a bottleneck. Who knows, maybe they are not even using HHVM, yet. I would be blaming actual code, not the stack for the current trouble.

P.S. LAMP != shitty developers automatically

I was merely asking a question, not referring to the obvious downsides of LAMP.

However Slack seems to be really unstable for being an enterprise product. Communication is a backbone of any business and should therefor be rock-solid. 5000 user maximum? Seriously?

Given their pricing model i don't think they expected anyone to try to have 5000 users...

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