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.

Today I’m proud to announce that we’ve open sourced Courier! A Scala library for– Wait, hold on, let me back up a bit. The thing is, we’re just starting development on Courier now. There’s nothing for you to download. Nothing...

At Coursera, we stand on the shoulders of many great open source projects like Scala, Django, Nginx, Ubuntu and countless other libraries and tools. This allows us to focus on what we want to do best: build the best online...