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Nearly six years ago, I wrote a post outlining how FlightAware was embarking on a journey to implement Site Reliability Engineering. The post focused on the transformation of our incident response processes to bring structure to the response as well as implement effective postmortems. Today, I can happily state that
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This post will give some background about flight blocking, an explanation of how our users view their own blocked flights and share them with others, and some insight into how these rules translate into test scenarios for FlightAware QA.
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In October 2024, we released AuthNxt—our next-generation authentication platform designed to integrate seamlessly with both our legacy TCL monolith and our modern microservices.
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When we first shared our move to a monorepo, our goal was to simplify dependency management, align tooling, and ship faster. This post looks at how we’ve evolved a year later!
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I've always had an interest in design. That curiosity is what made me want to take IDEO U’s "Insights for Innovation" and "From Ideas to Action" courses. I wanted to understand how designers think, how they approach problems, and how that mindset might make me a stronger engineer.
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In a world where there are limited resources for implementing and maintaining controls, we need some mechanism to determine where to spend our time and effort. Fortunately for us, smart people have already thought about, and come up with, a way to do just that: the Risk/Threat Assessment.
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Recently, a few different issues related to HTTP caching all came up around the same time. In this post I'll discuss two of the issues that arose, covering their impact, root cause, and remediation.
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Jason Chung, our intern for this summer, had the privilege of working with our Systems crew on an amazing project that leveraged machine learning as a tool to build comprehensive software manifests for a given server in our network.
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