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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 …
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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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By Josh Comeau Every summer, Khan Academy recruits a few software engineer interns. As part of their onboarding, we host several brief talks introducing the technology we work with: React, Flow, …
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By Brian Genisio Here at Khan Academy, we’ve been using GraphQL in several projects with great success. GraphQL is a query language for describing the data you want from the backend API. It is an …
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By Jared Forsyth Over the past few months, we’ve been adding some React Native to our existing iOS and Android apps. We started out by just creating a react-native repository and adding it as a …
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