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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
In a previous post , I opined on the virtues of having every code change be reviewed before it gets deployed to production. That was almost…... (more)
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I blog about engineering, engineering management, data science, and procrastination, the things I know best.
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
In a previous post , I opined on the virtues of having every code change be reviewed before it gets deployed to production. That was almost…... (more)
The operation queue: A content editing pattern for JavaScript
Friday, May 9, 2014
I recently gave a tech talk for the Khan Academy dev team describing the latest iteration of our infrastructure for saving edits from our…... (more)
Implementation: A new content store for Khan Academy
Friday, January 3, 2014
This article provides more implementation details for our versioned content store. To see the motivating challenges and overall design for…... (more)
Reinventing the wheel: A new content store for Khan Academy
Friday, January 3, 2014
Over the past two years, I've been working largely behind the scenes at Khan Academy on the infrastructure the content team uses to upload…... (more)
Thursday, March 14, 2013
ship, ship, ship! This past Friday, I shipped about a month's worth of extensive refactoring to the content editing infrastructure of the…... (more)
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
birth About a month ago I had the great fortune of having an amazing new person stumble into my life, ready to challenge by his very…... (more)
Progress vs. the Law of Useless Numbers
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. -Evan Esar There is a trendy practice being advocated in a…... (more)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
reorganization Last week we at Khan Academy revealed the first pieces of a long-term project to reorganize the content on the homepage and…... (more)