Benchling Engineering
The official blog of the Benchling engineering team.
Swathi Sundar
Engineering Leader. Love to travel and explore.
Latest Posts
Building an LLM-Powered Slackbot
How Benchling built a Knowledge Base in Amazon Bedrock that answers common developer questions via a familiar Slack interface.
Scaling Scientific Data: Migrating Benchling’s Schema Model for Performance at Scale
From schema sprawl to streamlined storage
A behind-the-scenes look at building interactive analysis capabilities in Benchling
Read about the architecture behind interactive analysis capabilities in Benchling and the decision journey we took along the way.
Signals, shells, and docker: an onion of footguns
A signal handling murder mystery
10x faster python test iteration via fork(2)
A dive into some Linux tricks to save setup time.
Exposing AWS KMS Asymmetric Keys as a JWKS
Learn about how our Security Engineering team solved a *key* authentication problem in Benchling.
Benchling’s 2022 Intern Spotlight
Read about 3 of our interns’ experiences this past summer!
Intern Spotlight: A visual guide to nucleotide chemical structures
My intern project was building chemical awareness into our modified biologics product. Learn about nucleotides with interactive visuals!
AWS Logging Services and Encryption Configurations — oh my!
Read how our Security team uncovered a subtle AWS configuration that can result in your data being encrypted with a key that’s not yours.
Using Suffix Trees to Detect Homology at Scale
Learn about how we use Suffix Trees to solve complex engineering problems in molecular biology!
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