Best Practices for Python Dependency Management

Written by Paul Kernfeld

Dependency management is like your city’s sewage system. When it’s working well, it’s easy to forget that it even exists. The only time you’ll remember it is when you experience the agony induced…

Typescript Tips Series: Proper Typing of react-redux Connected Components

Knewton has been incrementally converting its front-end React and backend Node.js codebases to TypeScript. In this series we highlight pitfalls we have encountered along the way, lessons we’ve learned…

Eureka! Why You Shouldn’t Use ZooKeeper for Service Discovery

Written by Peter Kelley

Many companies use ZooKeeper for service discovery. At Knewton, we believe this is a fundamentally flawed approach. In this article, I will walk through our failures with…

API Infrastructure at Knewton: What’s in an Edge Service?

Written by Paul Sastrasinh, Robert Murcek

The Knewton API gives students and teachers access to personalized learning recommendations and analytics in real time. In this post, we will pull back the covers…

Why “N choose K”?

Written by Shawn Lauzon

Analyzing Java “Garbage First Garbage Collection” (G1GC) Logs

Written by Carlos Monroy Nieblas

Garbage Collection can take a big toll on any Java application, so it’s important to understand its…

Java-Scala Interoperability

Written by Zack Newman

To many people, Java is programming. It’s the only programming language most of my non-technical friends could name off-hand, and the first one that many programmers learn. Since its initial appearance in 1995, Java’s usage has…