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.
READ NOWMost 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.
READ NOWNearly 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
READ NOWThis 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.
READ NOWIn October 2024, we released AuthNxt—our next-generation authentication platform designed to integrate seamlessly with both our legacy TCL monolith and our modern microservices.
READ NOWWhen 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!
READ NOWI'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.
READ NOWIn 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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