Riot supports more than 6,000 Slack users globally, and nearly 1,000 installed apps and integrations.

Since then, our Slack usage has grown dramatically in both raw numbers and complexity, and today we’ll provide a little more insight into some of the ways we’re using Slack to accelerate game development at Riot. In 2017, we became one of Slack’s very first Enterprise Grid customers, after an extensive early adopter alpha and beta testing period. Interest quickly grew, and we officially adopted Slack as our primary real-time communications platform in 2015, replacing Atlassian HipChat and IRC at the time. Slack adoption at Riot goes back several years, and started with small pockets of organic usage by Rioters in 2014. I recently spoke at the Slack Frontiers conference on this topic - the video is available on YouTube. I’m excited to share a look at how Riot integrates with Slack to support the game development lifecycle. I’m Byron Dover, engineering manager for information technology at Riot, and I lead the team responsible for developing enterprise software at Riot - or as we sometimes call it, Riot’s Operating System.