How the NYT Identity team tried out the Analytic Hierarchy Process to select a user ID format. — By David E. Wheeler When in the course of Engineering events it becomes necessary to make a decision between alternatives, how does a team go about it? Often a single engineer decides, based on their expertise and experience, and where the scope is narrow enough not to need the input…

Improving visibility of our responsible disclosure program through implementation of the security.txt standard. — By Nick Leghorn There’s really no replacement in the information security space for real people using live systems when it comes to finding vulnerabilities and bugs. No matter how many static and dynamic testing systems are used or how often we perform penetration testing on our systems, there are always…

Improving visibility of our responsible disclosure program through implementation of the security.txt standard. — By Nick Leghorn There’s really no replacement in the information security space for real people using live systems when it comes to finding vulnerabilities and bugs. No matter how many static and dynamic testing systems are used or how often we perform penetration testing on our systems, there are always…

How to cover more testing ground and discover new front end code issues by using both JSDOM and browser-based end-to-end testing. — By Katie Ishibashi For a long time, all of the testing my team did was through React Testing Library, a popular framework that’s easy to use with the apps that my team works on. We’re a front-end team that serves as a bridge between a data team that analyzes large…

“Meeting…” is an ongoing series that features colleagues from different corners of The New York Times Company. As National Hispanic Heritage Month has wrapped up, we wanted to highlight a few of our colleagues who shape XFun, our cross functional product development organization, at The Times. Read on to learn…

“Meeting…” is an ongoing series that features colleagues from different corners of The New York Times Company. As Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month has wrapped up, we wanted to highlight a few of our colleagues who shape XFun, our cross functional product development organization, at The Times.. …

New York Times Graphics and R&D engineers worked with wildfire experts to visualize how fires create their own weather patterns. An engineer describes the process behind this data driven graphic. — By Nick Bartzokas In mid-July, 2021, the Dixie fire ignited in California. Days later, it began to exhibit an increasingly common and concerning behavior. It created its own weather, producing storm clouds, winds, and lightning. In October of that year, The New York Times published a visual recreation of the…

How our Publishing Pipeline team is harnessing the power of defaults to make the right path the easy path for tenants of our shared platform. — By Ben Weintraub, Katelyn Salvatori and James Lawrie Platform teams owning multi-tenant systems are often faced with a difficult choice: make themselves the central dispatchers for all alerts related to their tenants, or delegate alerting responsibilities to their tenant teams, and accept the risk that those teams will incorrectly configure…

How Android engineers at The New York Times came together to learn a new framework. — By Jasmine Chan and Pamela Bergson This is a story about adopting new frameworks and using new technologies in a highly collaborative culture. We know that adopting new frameworks for your team is a continual challenge. For that reason, it’s often preferred to wait until engineers are working on a…