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By Ragini Gupta Data is very crucial to Khan Academy and is itself an internal product for the company. Analysts, engineers and marketing are some of the daily consumers of data. We have various …
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By Carter Bastian The previous posts about The Great Khan Academy Python Refactor of 2017 and Also 2018 answered two questions: why and how did we refactor all of our Python code? In this post, I want …
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By Ben Kraft Craig talked last post about our project to reorganize our whole Python codebase. This entails a lot of architectural challenges – deciding where to put each file, prioritizing which …
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By Craig Silverstein Our codebase was a mess. One day, we decided to do something about it: namely, move a bunch of files around. It took us two months. This blog post is first in a series describing …
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By Scott Grant When my wife and I left Silicon Valley in sunny California to return to my hometown of Kingston, Ontario, it was a significant change in our pace of life. Kingston is a medium-sized …
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By Hannah Blumberg At Khan Academy, (nearly) every piece of code that goes into our codebase has been reviewed by at least one other person. Code reviews help us keep code maintainable and clean, …
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