FlightAware uses multiple technologies to provide industry leading flight tracking. One of the key ways this is achieved is through our network of aviation enthusiasts. These volunteers grow our ADS-B network
READ NOWThere are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
READ NOWIn Part I, we talked about mocking some of our functionality using pgxmock. This version of the article replaces the manual mocking approach with mockery, a tool that automates the generation of mocks.
READ NOWThis month, Sales is contributing to Angle of Attack in partnership with Engineering! Come learn how our teams provide accessible, reliable documentation to our users.
READ NOWThis blog post was originally published in November 2024. We’re publishing it again now because we thought it would be helpful to highlight how and why our iOS map component leverages Apple’s MapKit framework and Apple’s base map tiles as part of the overall solution.
READ NOWAs FlightAware moves away from its monolithic Tcl tech stack to a distributed micro service architecture, many core services need to be split out from the monolith to keep the system running.
READ NOWIn this blog post, I’m going to be describing several of the ways that the flight page, on the FlightAware website, displays data, as well as the testing perspective on that specific view of the flight page.
READ NOWAt FlightAware, one of our key priorities is to consistently deliver high-quality software. We are committed to maintaining and continuously improving product quality, benefiting both our customers and engineering teams. Test automation is crucial in achieving this goal.
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