One Day, I Asked Our First Female Engineer… One day, I asked our first female engineer at Atlan how things were going. Her response made me the proudest: “I’ve been in companies with higher female/male ratios. But in all those companies, I was always reminded that I was a ‘female engineer.’ At Atlan, I’m just an engineer.” As a female…
Building a Scalable Engine for No-Code Workflows Setting the stage Managing multiple tasks—whether it’s approving requests, streamlining operations, moving data, or keeping teams aligned—can often feel like trying to juggle too many things at once. These challenges are universal, and we’ve experienced them firsthand. At Atlan, we set out to simplify this complexity for all the data teams. We envisioned…
During a previous internship, I was given a seemingly straightforward task, migrating new customer data into our databases and warehouses. However, I quickly found myself struggling and juggling between different…
Command-line interfaces (CLIs) help developers complete tasks quickly and efficiently. At Atlan, where we build tools to help data teams work better together, we’ve learned how a well-designed CLI can make a big difference. In this post, we’re sharing our insights from building CLIs at Atlan. You’ll find tips and strategies for designing CLIs that are simple, powerful, and loved…
The Seven Pillars of Platform Team is a set of core values that guide the development of our technology platform. They include scalability, reliability, security, innovation, affordability, observability, and extensibility.…
Our week just got off to a brilliant start as we joined the third batch of Surge, a program by Sequoia Capital for rapidly scaling startups. Sequoia Capital has helped build leading global enterprises, from idea to IPO and beyond. They have backed the world’s most legendary #FutureofWork tools — Zoom, Github, Loom, Figma – and now, Atlan!Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder…
Who’s a happy startup? We are! All thanks to Analytics India Magazine (AIM), as they featured Atlan as one of the 10 emerging data and analytics startups in India in…
Atlan is all about the humans of data. But ever wondered about the people behind the vision? Who are the humans of Atlan and what do they do? To answer these questions and more, we’re starting off a series of blogs that will give you a sneak peek into life behind the scenes at Atlan. We spoke to Gaurav Singh,…
The short of it… we’re opening up our Atlan Grid API for teams everywhere! 🎉 We’re making it easier for teams everywhere to access the data they need, when they…
We’re building Atlan, a home for data teams. Atlan is a delightful new way to work with data. We bring together diverse data, tools and people to create a frictionless collaboration experience for data teams around the world.
We’re so excited to announce the launch of our second online course about geospatial data in R. Sign up here. When you hear “geospatial data”, what comes to your mind?…
As we at Atlan started to use big data (massive data from hundreds of sources), we quickly found that we needed to move everything to the cloud. With data sizes in TBs, we couldn’t keep a local copy of our data for analysis, so we needed to find a way to directly interact with data
At Atlan, we have always invested in the growth of our teams and people around us. To give back to the community and contribute, we collaborate with tech communities across…
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