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11/2/2026
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Phil Copley

Where we've been and where we're going, web monorepo edition

Update to our 2024 Monorepo post!

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10/5/2026
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John Farmer

Flight plan of Theseus

Most flights have a tail number, but some flights do not. Many flights have a callsign or flight number, but callsigns come with no promise of uniqueness. Since there are no unique external identifiers upon which we can fully rely, we have to create our own.

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9/8/2026
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Bryan Garcia

2026 Summer Intern Project

Join us at we look at the 2026 Intern Project!

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8/3/2026
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Shawn Karnoski

Blast From the Past: My FlightAware Internship

Let's take a look back at our 2025 intern blog! In this post, they share the problem they set out to solve, the approach they took, and what they learned along the way.

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7/6/2026
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Nathan Reed

Shipping a new iOS map feature start-to-finish

One of FlightAware’s main goals is to put flight data into context to tell a broader, interconnected story about a flight, airport, or other part of the aviation ecosystem. One of the ways we do that best across all our product surfaces is by presenting information on maps. At

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6/1/2026
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Chris Roberts

The Best Tool for the Job, 3 Years Later

With this post, I look back on how the last three years of Go adoption have gone at FlightAware and how I would have approached my analysis differently with the powers of hindsight.

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5/4/2026
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John Gills

Dead Programs Tell No Tails: Adopting DataDog Without Losing Your Shirt

At FlightAware, we use two different observability platforms, our in-house monitoring architecture and DataDog. This is the story of how we got here, what we are doing and where we are going.

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4/7/2026
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Chris Roberts

The Best Tool for the Job: Assessing Languages for Microservice Development at FlightAware

Most of the posts on the Angle of Attack blog look to the past, but this post takes a different approach, as it speaks more to what FlightAware will do rather than what it has done. It will give readers some insight into how significant technical decisions are made at FlightAware.

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