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12/8/2020
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Karl Lehenbauer

Is Everything Up? Monitoring 29,302 Points In-the-Loop in the FlightAware Production Stack

Take lessons from high stakes monitoring in the physical world (electrical grids, nuclear power plants, oil rigs, data centers) and apply them to a pure software stack.

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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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9/25/2020
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Chadd Mikulin

The Future Leaders of FlightAware. Part 2: Principles, Practices, and Tools for Building Strategic Leadership

A deep dive into how the FlightAware Engineering team designed their Directed Training Program, a tailored leadership training initiative.

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9/21/2020
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Lakshmi Raman

Securing the Journey to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins Pipeline

FlightAware examines what we learned designing CI/CD with Jenkins Pipeline as we deployed a new application.

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8/11/2020
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Caroline Rodewig, Garrett McGrath

Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

The evolution of systems monitoring technology decisions and practices for multi-machine Hyperfeed and predictive technology.

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7/21/2020
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Chadd Mikulin

The Future Leaders of FlightAware. Part 1: Structuring the Manager’s Path

This is the first in a series of posts about growing the future leaders of FlightAware.

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7/2/2020
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Sean Kelly

Driving Reliability at FlightAware

In this post, we’ll take a quick look at what SRE is, why we chose to go in this direction, and how this journey has changed our incident response processes for the better.

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6/17/2020
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James Sulak

Crews, Wings, and Alliances. Part 1: The Principles of How We Work

This post is the first in a series telling the story of how we evolved our organization to enable growth, foster individuals’ personal career development, and of course, build great things.

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