Beating the odds: Khan Academy’s successful monolith→services rewrite
by Marta Kosarchyn When I last posted in early 2020, the COVID pandemic had just caused the ... Read more
Engineering
Technical choices behind a successful rewrite project
by Kevin Dangoor In December 2019, I wrote an introduction to our “Goliath” project: We needed to ... Read more
Where Go and GraphQL collide: Behind the curtain with genqlient
by Ben Kraft In my last post, I talked about genqlient, our new Go GraphQL client which ... Read more
genqlient: A truly type-safe Go GraphQL client
by Ben Kraft Kevin has written about our multi-year project to replace our Python 2.7 monolith with ... Read more
Half a million lines of Go
By Kevin Dangoor Back in December 2019, I first wrote about Goliath, Khan Academy’s project to migrate ... Read more
Why we switched to Airflow for pipeline orchestration
By Tom Yedwab Introduction When we last discussed Khan Academy’s data pipeline management system, we shared our ... Read more
