Re-architecting a Slack bot for scale

Dibs On Stuff is a Slack bot (and now also a Discord bot) that was built to help developers take turns with server hardware, so that they could demo their changes to various stakeholders.

After publishing the bot on the Slack App Directory there were some immediate scaling and performance challenges. In this post: I've gone into the how and why of the Dibs On Stuff re-architecture, and dunked a stubby quill into its origin story.