Ensuring transaction-safety in Google App Engine
By Craig Silverstein In last week’s exciting post, I described an alternative to transactions that we use ... Read more
Engineering
The User Write Lock: an Alternative to Transactions for Google App Engine
By Craig Silverstein Transactions are the standard method in Google App Engine’s datastore — as in many ... Read more
Khan Academy’s Engineering Principles
⭐ Read about our 2019 revision of the principles! ⭐ By Ben Kamens You know those super-frustrating ... Read more
Minimizing the length of regular expressions, in practice
By Craig Silverstein The problem Software engineering interviews tend to be full of ”algorithms” questions, because they’re ... Read more
Introducing SwiftTweaks
By Bryan Clark Today, we’re releasing SwiftTweaks, a way to adjust your Swift-based iOS app without needing ... Read more
The Autonomous Dumbledore
By Evy Kassirer When I arrived at Khan Academy to start my internship on the Official SAT ... Read more
