11 Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Are the LearnBoost Engineers Magicians?

by Meredith      tags: ,

LearnBoost engineering wizardsI would call this somewhat of a “secret” blog post, as it’s not technically approved by the higher ups here at LearnBoost. It’s a fine Friday, however, and in light of some of the buzz that our engineers have received this week, I wanted to share my appreciation for the mind-blowing work that our developers are doing for LearnBoost and for the web 2.0 world with their open-source contributions. In no way is this an attempt to brag about what we’re doing, but as one of the only non-technical (try as I might) people at LearnBoost, I wanted to take some time to thank our engineering heros and share their awesomeness with our users and non-tech followers. On a daily basis I feel honored and rather lucky that I am surrounded by such brilliant technologists, and as someone thoroughly invested in improving education, I’m excited about the great things that these guys are bringing to the space!

Sparking some appreciation

It all started on Wednesday, when Yahoo!’s Director of Standards Development, Eran Hammer-Lahav, published a very kind tribute to the LearnBoost engineering team, “Node.js: Express, Socket.io, and everything LearnBoost.”

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Availability, redundancy, failover and data backups at LearnBoost

by Guillermo Rauch      tags:

Today was undoubtedly a special day for internet startups and businesses. One of the biggest and most famous “cloud providers,” Amazon Web Services, went partially down, taking with it famous websites like Quora, FormSpring, and dozens of others.

The worst part of the story is that as of the time this article is being written, some of these websites have experienced over 10 hours of downtime.


Quora’s downtime tweet

LearnBoost is hosted in the same cloud as these services, but our teachers, parents and students enjoyed their gradebooks with same quality of service today as every other day. I’m going to take this opportunity to explain what decisions we made toward making this possible, what technologies we employed, and in the spirit of open source, how others can achieve this.

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Introducing Stylus and Mongoose 1.0

by Meredith      tags:

Good morning, tech lovers! Along with our education and edtech posts, we like to keep you updated on our coding adventures as well. We know that some of our teachers might not care much about the details of our open-source developments, but we are so grateful to our phenomenal developers for innovating not only in education, but also in the technology space.

This week, we are excited to introduce you to Stylus and reveal a new major release for Mongoose. Also, check out the Mongoose discussion to get a more in depth look at the improvements.

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