Flannel: An Application-Level Edge Cache to Make Slack Scale

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Flannel: An Application-Level Edge Cache to Make Slack Scale | Engineering at Slack

Professor Robin Dunbar, when studying Neolithic farming villages and primate troupes in the 90s, theorized that the maximum number of stable relationships we can keep is around 148, known popularly as Dunbar’s number. This upper bound is due to the mental dossier kept on individual’s relationships, but more importantly, the number of cross relationships between…

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