“We had a solution that would spin up Slack as a headless Chrome instance in like a bunch of Kubernetes pods and try to run a tiny little JavaScript script and like click buttons, like pretend to be a user.”

The Pragmatic Engineer · Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

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spun up Slack as a headless Chrome instance in many Kubernetes pods and ran a tiny JavaScript script to click buttons, simulating users

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