Slack Technologies, Inc.

Ananth Packkildurai

Noah Weiss

Jason Liszka

Joshua Wills

Ryan E Park

John Gallagher

Stanislav Vyacheslavovich Babourine

Shaun Sabo

Methods, apparatus and computer program product for improving data indexing in a group-based communication platform are described herein. The group-based communication platform having a computed collection and one or more live collections. The computer-implemented method includes generating a new collection, the new collection being generated at a snapshot time point; associating a collection manager with the new collection; retrieving a plurality of electronic messages from the computed collection and the one or more live collections; writing the plurality of electronic messages to the new collection, the writing being completed at a cut-over time point; synchronizing the new collection with the one or more live collections based on the plurality of electronic messages; and redirecting the read alias and the write alias from the computed collection to the new collection.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for improving data indexing in a group-based communication platform

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Ananth Packkildurai