Should engineering managers write code? Wrong question.

By eleith

I spend a lot of my time advising engineering managers and “How much code should I write?” gets asked by a lot of folks new to the role.

My Summer Internship at Coursera

By Meiri Anto

Hi I’m Meiri, and I’m a rising senior majoring in economics and computer science at Swarthmore College. This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to intern as a back-end software engineer on the Learning Experience Team (internally…

Rust & Docker in production @ Coursera

By Brennan Saeta

Building a platform for quality education at scale is much more challenging than it initially appears. One of the most sophisticated components of Coursera’s learning platform is our programming assignments…

4 Things I Learned While Building a Slackbot With AWS Lambda

By eleith

tl;dr: Lambda promises to simplify how we build services in the future. While building a slackbot internally for Coursera, I learned a few lessons about Lambda worth sharing.

Analytics at Coursera

Reflections from our first three years

Becoming Bilingual @ Coursera

By Brice Pollock

Why UI Developers Love GraphQL

This is the first part in a multi-part series of blog posts covering our transition from a homegrown data access framework to using GraphQL across all of our clients (web & mobile) here at Coursera.

Breaking Up Our JavaScript Monolith with Rapidos

By Evan Yeung

The frontend infrastructure team at Coursera works hard to make developers as productive as possible. This includes keeping up with the latest and greatest tools and libraries, but also means making builds…