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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 …
Continue Reading about Creating Query Components with Apollo →
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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 …
Continue Reading about Migrating to a Mobile Monorepo for React Native →
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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 …
Continue Reading about Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure →
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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 …