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.
READ NOWShipping 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
READ NOWThe 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.
READ NOWDead 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.
READ NOWThe 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.
READ NOWBlast From the Past: Driving Reliability at FlightAware
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
READ NOWFlight Blocking
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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