Testing Fastly services on every PR: How USA TODAY tests their CDN prior to changing it

When we first switched to Fastly last year, we realized we would quickly run into the same challenge a number of companies with complicated CDN configurations face: How do we…

Scaling at Scale: I was told there would be no math

Over the course of last year, the USA TODAY NETWORK Platform Engineering group moved much of our cloud footprint into Docker containers, scheduled in Kubernetes clusters. Today, we run more than 3,000 containers in production — front-end…

Designing a design system for modular modules, and building a team to build it

ES2015 module imports in production

Two years ago, we began building the next generation of the USA TODAY NETWORK’s web framework. The front end of the framework uses web components heavily, but we expected there would always be some core, non-component JavaScript. Our plan was to write this core…

USA TODAY NETWORK Product Technology Team Delivers Keynote at Fastly’s #altitudeconf

“132 websites, 1 service: your local news runs on Fastly”

It’s nice to be recognized for doing cutting-edge work. #humblebrag #nothumblebrag

USA TODAY NETWORK makes up a full third of Rising Star Award winners

Congratulations to Bridget Lane & Rob Gindes in Platform Engineering, Mark Hannallah in Product Management, Stephanie Solis (Reporter, Asbury Park Press), Haowei Qin (Data Scientist, Consumer Marketing), Dorothy…