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Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts is a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend Alpha Wing. He spends a lot of time thinking about how to make FlightAware's APIs more pleasant to use.
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4/1/2024
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Chris Roberts

How Hard is it to Delete a Docker Tag?

I recently ran into a surprisingly tricky issue around deleting stale Docker image tags to keep our private Docker registry tidy. I ended up doing more research than expected, and I wanted to share some of my findings.

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10/2/2023
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Chris Roberts

Tips and Tricks for Winning your Next FlightAware Hackathon

FlightAware's yearly hackathons are a fun diversion from usual work where we can focus on just making something cool. They're also an opportunity to vie for dominance on the battlefield of public opinion! Coolest project wins.

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2/6/2023
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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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10/27/2020
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Chris Roberts

Making SQLite Upserts Snappy (with Python and SQLAlchemy)

In this post, we explore some of the tradeoffs of performance optimization and where to draw the line in the never-ending quest for speedy code.

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