We appreciate all the incredible feedback the Mattermost community has provided about Collapsed Reply Threads since launching in beta in Mattermost Cloud and Self-Managed v5.37 and later. We are working as quickly as possible towards resolving known issues and then promoting this feature to be generally available.

Mattermost v5.38 is generally available today and includes the following new features (see changelog for more details).

In the last few months, we have been working on a new Apps framework for developers. The idea behind this framework is to make it easier for more developers to integrate external applications or their own applications into Mattermost. But wait a moment, don’t we have Plugins for that? Yes, but Apps provide some advantages to developers over Plugins.

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with the team over at Rudderstack. It focused on Data Engineering and managing dynamic schemas at scale. More specifically, Rudderstack-generated, dynamic schemas at scale. This blog will discuss the tools, software, and methods to do just that.

In the daily life of a Site Reliability Engineer, the main goal is to reduce all the work we call toil. But what is toil? Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and scales linearly as a service grows. This blog post describes our journey to automate our nodes rotation process when we have a new AMI release and the open source tools we built on this.