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By Kevin Dangoor Go + Services = One Goliath Project Khan Academy is embarking on a huge effort to rebuild our server software on a more modern stack in Go. At Khan Academy, we don’t shy away from a …
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By Jangmi Jo Background In 2018, we started renewing our color system using our new shared design system, Wonder Blocks (“WB” in short). WB reduces site colors from 48 to 18 to improve accessibility …
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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. Part …
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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 use …