Understanding software used by scientists by mining the biomedical literature — At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), we believe open source tools are critical to accelerating scientific discovery. In an effort to improve our understanding of the impact of software (and scientific open source in particular) in biomedical science, we’re releasing the CZ Software Mentions Dataset — a dataset entirely composed…

Hi! I’m Matt — an intern on CZI Education’s Backend Infrastructure team. I just wrapped up two B.S. degrees at UCLA and will be returning for a Master’s in computer science. I’m particularly passionate about CS & Education, Programming Languages & Human-Computer Interaction (PL & HCI), and open-source software. In…

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) leverages technology, community-driven solutions and collaboration to help solve some of today’s toughest issues — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities. …

At CZI our mission is to build a future for everyone. One of our apps helping accomplish that is the Summit Learning platform. Its frontend is about 470k lines of Flow, which we’re migrating to TypeScript. Goodbye Flow, hello TypeScript Both Flow and TypeScript are type systems for JavaScript, which help catch bugs and…

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) leverages technology, community-driven solutions and collaboration to help solve some of today’s toughest issues — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities. …

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) leverages technology, community-driven solutions and collaboration to help solve some of today’s toughest issues — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities. …

At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), we use RedisMemo to improve the performance and reliability of our products, Summit Learning and Along. RedisMemo is an application-level caching system for Ruby programs. …

Accessibility is important to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), because we envision a country where every student enters adulthood prepared to reach their full potential. This vision isn’t possible if students or teachers are excluded because of a disability. To support equity and inclusion, we recently started to test our…

At CZI, we’ve adopted Sorbet, a fast and powerful static type-checking tool for Ruby. In our previous post, we talked about the technical challenges of adopting Sorbet in a Rails codebase, which led us to develop the sorbet-rails gem. After a year of using Sorbet, we have made significant…