infrastructure

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 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 …

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By Colin Fuller At Khan Academy, we run our web application using Python 2.7 on Google’s App Engine Standard. We love Python for a lot of reasons — most notably the language’s readability and …

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By Kevin Dangoor This month, my colleague Dave Rosile and I went to GlueCon 2018 in sunny Denver, Colorado. The organizers did a fantastic job putting together a conference around modern server …

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By Kevin Dangoor “Architect” is a new role in Khan Academy’s engineering team this year, and my colleague, John, and I have stepped into this role. John has been with Khan for seven years now, mostly …

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By Ragini Gupta Data is very crucial to Khan Academy and is itself an internal product for the company. Analysts, engineers and marketing are some of the daily consumers of data. We have various …

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