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.
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.
READ NOWProtecting Applications with OpenID Connect
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.
READ NOWMonorepo Phase 2: Tooling, Workflow, and Lessons from the Web Wing at FlightAware
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!
READ NOWAn Enlightened Engineer's Perspective on Design
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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