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5/10/2021
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Marissa Konicke

Leveraging Data Analytics for Decision Making: Product Management at FlightAware

Insights into how FlightAware’s product team uses data to drive better decision making when there are a million things to do.

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3/30/2021
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Jonathan Cone

Firehose++ - The Evolution of a High-Performance Streaming API

Our journey to evolve Firehose into a high-performance socket streaming API.

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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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