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		paxys on June 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Real-time messaging 100K – https://slack.com/blog/news/top-u-s-retailer-h-e-b-rolled-ou... 350K – https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-... The Kubernetes Slack has close to 200K users right now. Amazon has 1.5 million employees, and I'm sure the majority are on Slack. Forget 1995, no service other than Slack can run group chats at this scale even today.

berkle4455 on June 23, 2023 [–]

> I’m sure the majority are on Slack

80% of Amazon’s employees are warehouse and drivers.

paxys on June 23, 2023 | [–]

Which still leaves >300K corporate employees.

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