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By Marta Kosarchyn Our engineering team has grown a lot over the past couple of years, and we’re delivering more product than ever before. It’s exhilarating. It’s also tricky. Because scaling is …
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By Diedra Rater At Khan Academy, we’ve been working to make our web product more accessible to a variety of users, including those who experience blurry vision and/or severe color-blindness. …
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By Aasmund Eldhuset Earlier this year, the Khan Academy Engineering organization decided to introduce Kotlin as an alternative backend language alongside Python (in which almost all of our existing …
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By Kevin Dangoor “Linting” source code to look for errors is nothing new (the original “lint” tool turned turned forty this year!), but most places I worked prior to Khan Academy didn’t …
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By Colin Fuller At Khan Academy, we run our web application using Python 2.7 on Google’s App Engine Standard. We love Python for a lot of reasons — most notably the language’s readability and …
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By Kevin Dangoor This month, my colleague Dave Rosile and I went to GlueCon 2018 in sunny Denver, Colorado. The organizers did a fantastic job putting together a conference around modern server …
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