Angle of Attack

7/6/2026

Nathan Reed

Shipping 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

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6/1/2026

Chris Roberts

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.

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5/4/2026

John Gills

Dead 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.

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4/7/2026

Chris Roberts

The 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.

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3/2/2026

Sean Kelly

Blast 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

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2/2/2026

Adam Purtee

Flight 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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1/5/2026

Jared Harvey

Protecting 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.

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12/2/2025

Andrew Lewis

Monorepo 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!

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