Flipboard at AWS Summit 2014

by Joey Parsons ∙ April 10, 2025

About two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at Amazon’s AWS Summit 2014. During Andy Jassy’s keynote presentation, I discussed how we use Amazon Web Services in an efficient, performant, and cost-effective way.

When people think of Flipboard, what most often comes to mind is our application design – the beautiful, flippable reading experience millions of readers enjoy every day. What’s less well known is all of the data and serving architecture that goes into delivering that beautiful experience and ensuring it’s fast.…

Layout in Flipboard for Web and Windows

by Charles Ying ∙ March 24, 2025

At Flipboard, we are working hard to build the world’s best personal magazine—a magazine made just for you, filled with the stories you care about most.

Magazine layout design plays a key role in telling those stories. Good layout design frames a story and impacts how you are informed by the content. For example, in the hallways of Sports Illustrated, editors hang up every page of the print edition to be reviewed and manually tweaked before publication.

When you read Flipboard, articles and photographs are laid out in a series of pages you can flip through, just like in a print magazine. Each magazine page …

Yet another engineering blog

by Eric Feng ∙ March 23, 2025

Welcome to the brand new Flipboard engineering blog! I know what you’re thinking. You’ve seen this movie before. Interesting tech projects mixed with industry insights and a dash of unabashed recruiting sprinkled in.

That does sound like a formula, but I hope there’s something else that you’ll find …