A Day in the Life: Ashley Joost(Principal Software Engineer)
A Day in the Life: Ashley Joost (Principal Software Engineer) What has been your journey in tech so far? Initially, I had zero intention of becoming Read More
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Maker to Manager — How We Support New Leaders
Maker to Manager — How We Support New Leaders Introduction At Skyscanner, we take the career aspirations of our teams seriously, which is why we have spent a Read More
Turbolift — a tool for refactoring at scale
Turbolift — a tool for refactoring at scale Skyscanner’s systems are anything but small-scale. With millions of travellers using our site and app every month, we handle dizzying Read More
Whispers: Advanced secrets detection
Introduction Skyscanner’s Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is built to support tens of thousands of deployments per day. The frequency of production deployments cannot Read More
Roll up to speed up: Improving OpenTSDB query performance
This post describes how we improved the query performance for our OpenTSDB cluster and enabled queries that previously were impossible by reducing the resolution of Read More
Cloud Governance with CFRipper
Introduction Skyscanner’s products are powered by hundreds of services hosted on AWS. In order to deploy changes and new services to production with zero clicks, Read More
3 (+1) Questions for impactful Sprint Goals!
Cristiano Balducci is one of our squad leaders. A problem-solver at heart, Cristiano shares valuable insights on how you can identify issues and achieve your Read More
Kubernetes Security monitoring at scale with Sysdig Falco
Two years ago in Skyscanner we made the decision to start moving our workloads to Kubernetes. Today, even though this transition is far from complete, Read More
The (curious) case of the thirty-something graduate
When Alexandra Haret heard the ‘call of the code’, she left behind a ten year marketing career to retrain as a software engineer. Along the Read More
Our Engineers move people: George Goodyer, Skyscanner Chief Technology Officer
https://medium.com/media/b67ce5933ed7ea80a129400b423a856b/href Over the last few weeks Skyscanner has been looking for some of the best talent to join its engineering team. In this video, our Read More