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By Ben Kraft Last post, I wrote about how we did profiling on App Engine’s Memcached service to plan our new content-serving infrastructure that will allow us to scale our new content tools to …
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By Ben Kraft Last year, William wrote about how we optimized our in-memory content data to take up less space. But this was always a temporary solution: if we want to have a separate content tree for …
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By Amos Latteier This is the second time I’ve been to Silicon Valley. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – I started writing open source software. It’s taken me to …
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By Brian Genisio At Khan Academy, we rely heavily on Open Source Software (OSS). The majority of our software is built upon OSS and we love giving back to the community when we find nuggets of code …
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By Bryan Clark One of the more tedious design tasks is keeping your App Store promo images up-to-date. As you add localization support and new features, it can mean taking a few days of a …
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By Kimerie Green For the past few months, I have been working as a Software Engineering Fellow at Khan Academy. This program gives engineers from non-traditional backgrounds the opportunity to build …
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