A More Accessible Web
Some of the web technologies that The New York Times has leveraged to enhance the user experience of our website and apps for all. Illustration by Read More
Category: code
Using gRPC to Connect a Microservices Ecosystem
gRPC is a powerful system, enabling a wide range of forms, functions, and capabilities. While we’ve previously explored gRPC from a top-down view, recent interest Read More
Meeting… Corina Aoi, Technical Product Manager at The New York Times
“Meeting…” is an ongoing series from NYT Open that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky What is Read More
Meeting… Jessie Wu, Software Engineer at The New York Times
“Meeting…” is an ongoing series from NYT Open that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky What is Read More
To Serve Better Ads, We Built Our Own Data Program
The New York Times launched an advertising data program for our direct-sold ads business that uses our own data and data science techniques. By Pranay Prabhat Read More
Meeting… Shay Culpepper, Software Engineer at The New York Times
“Meeting…” is an ongoing series from NYT Open that features New York Times employees from different corners of the company. Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky What is Read More
Diagnosing performance issues in Rails applications
Photo by Carlos Muza on Unsplash Almost everyone who works on a large Rails application will eventually have to deal with performance problems. For better or Read More
Traffic, Turkey and No-Knead Bread
When more people started cooking at home, the NYT Cooking engineering team rushed to make software improvements. By Tiffany Peón Illustration by David Huang Most years, the Read More
Finding the Right Words
The New York Times is releasing guidelines for how we describe our products By Sarah Duncan Illustration by Bráulio Amado Words have meaning. This statement shouldn’t be a Read More
How the New York Times Technology Teams Prepared for the 2020 Election
“We need a plan for everything, a backup plan for everything, and then an idea of what we should do if both of those plans fail.” Read More