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
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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
Being a principal engineer at Skyscanner
In this follow-up to her influential post, Finding the steps on the individual contributor ladder, Nicky Wrightson discusses her experiences as a principal engineer at Read More
Finding the steps on the individual contributor ladder
What does it actually mean to be a ‘principal engineer’? Skyscanner’s Nicky Wrightson draws on her experiences, her missteps, and her research to profile one Read More
How we scaled our design system to unleash Skyscanner’s new brand
Skyscanner’s design system, ‘Backpack’, played a crucial role in enabling the company’s recent brand refresh. In this piece, Shaun Donnelly looks at how having a Read More