Slack recently posted a detailed description of the software architecture of its new role management system. Slack needed to build a system that was more flexible than the one it previously had. It created a custom containerized Go-based permission service that integrates with its existing systems over gRPC. As a result, its customers’ admins can now have granular control over what their users can do.
Slack engineers Jake Byman, Aish Raj Dahal, and Jose M. Medina explain the motivation for creating a new role management system:
