Ancestry Product & Technology

If we compare developing software to building an airplane, then running the software without good observability and monitoring is like…

Introduction

The Data Platform team at Ancestry has been maintaining a fully-refreshed 100-billion-row Apache Iceberg table for several months. A…

At Ancestry, we are proud to connect users with their families past and present. We help people learn about their ancestors’ lives so that…

One of the most interesting datasets at Ancestry is the Hints database. This is used to alert users that potential new information is…

Summary: This article is for data engineers who would like to gain a deeper understanding of how data is stored as it flows through a data…

Summary: This article is for teams new to data pipelines to improve trust in data outputs for better results. Below I share our insights on…

All product launches have their own challenges, but what if you launch and user won’t have access to their normal flows for a few weeks…

Ancestry recently launched Ethnicity Inheritance that predicts which regions each customer inherited from each of their parents. Our team…

When I arrived at Ancestry more than 20 years ago, my new coworkers were wearing t-shirts proudly proclaiming “200,000 subscribers”! It was…

Since the release of Drag and Drop in iOS 15, moving around photos, files and text from app to app or from one part of an app to another…

This article is part of a series on SwiftUI pro tips. To read the last article in the series, click here.

This article is part of a series on SwiftUI pro tips. To read the first article, click here.

At Ancestry we’ve been slowly transitioning to SwiftUI for our user interfaces and have picked up a couple of useful “pro tips” along the…

Introduction and Challenges:

Over the past 20+ years, I have been really fortunate to be part of scaling multiple zero-to-one, Direct-To-Consumer Internet businesses…

Overview

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to represent Ancestry and my mobile development team in a one-on-one conversation with Apple CEO Tim…

Recently I read a book titled “Irish Ancestors — A pocket guide to your family history” by John Grenham. I really liked the explanation he…

This was not your average Summer internship. Most college students that picked up an internship this Summer were stuck in their homes…

Software developers like to find ways to do more with less code.

Overview

How to use Terraform modules to minimize code duplication in your IAC projects.