Stories from the Cache Crimes Division
Recently, a few different issues related to HTTP caching all came up around the same time. In this post I'll discuss two of the issues that arose, covering their impact, root cause, and remediation.
READ NOWMy FlightAware Internship
Jason Chung, our intern for this summer, had the privilege of working with our Systems crew on an amazing project that leveraged machine learning as a tool to build comprehensive software manifests for a given server in our network.
READ NOWFlightAware's ADS-B Flight Tracking Network
FlightAware uses multiple technologies to provide industry leading flight tracking. One of the key ways this is achieved is through our network of aviation enthusiasts. These volunteers grow our ADS-B network
READ NOWFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
READ NOWPart II: Using Mockery to generate Mocks for Testing in Golang
In Part I, we talked about mocking some of our functionality using pgxmock. This version of the article replaces the manual mocking approach with mockery, a tool that automates the generation of mocks.
READ NOWFlightAware’s Documentation and leveraging it for Customer Success
This month, Sales is contributing to Angle of Attack in partnership with Engineering! Come learn how our teams provide accessible, reliable documentation to our users.
READ NOWBlast from the past: A new iOS map component for FlightAware
This blog post was originally published in November 2024. We’re publishing it again now because we thought it would be helpful to highlight how and why our iOS map component leverages Apple’s MapKit framework and Apple’s base map tiles as part of the overall solution.
READ NOWOverhauling Authentication at FlightAware
As FlightAware moves away from its monolithic Tcl tech stack to a distributed micro service architecture, many core services need to be split out from the monolith to keep the system running.
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