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 …
Using static analysis in Python, JavaScript and more to make your system safer
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 use …
Kotlin on the server at Khan Academy
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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The Original Serverless Architecture is Still Here
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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What do software architects at Khan Academy do?
By Kevin Dangoor “Architect” is a new role in Khan Academy’s engineering team this year, and my colleague, John, and I have stepped into this role. John has been with Khan for seven years now, mostly …
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New data pipeline management platform at Khan Academy
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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