Enterprise Slack apps on Google Cloud now easier than ever By Tim Swast, Developer Programs Engineer, Google Cloud Slack recently announced a new, streamlined path to building apps, opening the door to corporate engineers to build fully featured internal integrations for companies of all sizes. You can now make an app that supports any Slack API feature such as message buttons, threads and the Events API without having to enable app distribution. This means you can keep the app private to your team as an internal integration. With support for the Events API in internal integrations, you can now use platforms like Google App Engine or Cloud Functions to host a Slack bot or app just for your team. Even if youre building an app for multiple teams, internal integrations let you focus on developing your app logic first and wait to implement the OAuth2 flow for distribution until youre ready. Weve updated the Google Cloud Platform samples for Slack to use this new flow. With sampl...