We decided early on to colocate most aspects of the back-end, in part because we anticipated shared channels[1], but also because provisioning even virtual hard

We decided early on to colocate most aspects of the back-end, in part because we anticipated shared channels[1], but also because provisioning even virtual hardware for each team would be prohibitively expensive: we have over 600,000 organizations in Slack today[2], too many to make hard-partitioning most resources economical. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-brings-shared-channels-to-enterprise-grid-intros-bridge-to-email/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-brings-shared-channels-t... [2] https://sec.report/Document/0001628280-19-004786/ https://sec.report/Document/0001628280-19-004786/