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.<p>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.