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 people to figure out the source of a particular dataset. I questioned whether certain data was necessary or in what format it had to be processed and stored. Even though…
When I first heard about User Research a decade ago, the first image that showed up in my mind was that of ‘cultural anthropologists’ – people who travel to new countries and continents to learn about the building blocks of a community of people. The goal is to understand why people do what they do – how people think, act, create, find meaning…
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…
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.…
I had interviewed for the backend engineering internship role at Atlan in May 2021 and managed to get in. I just wanted to share my experience and some tips around the same. tl;dr I had applied for the opening via AngelList, and I sent in my resume and a cover letter explaining why I thought I was a good fit. After that I got…
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…
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…
Appreciation is a great way of making someone’s day. And thanks to appreciation from Singapore Business Review (SBR), our week started on a high note. Why, you ask? They featured Atlan as one of the 20 hottest startups in Singapore. 🥳 Trends in VC funding as per Singapore Business Review The ninth edition of the report starts by mentioning three…
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…
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…
Culture is one of those words that gets thrown around everywhere. It comes up on the list of casually used buzzwords almost as frequently as “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning”. But I never really knew what it meant until 45 days ago, when I joined Atlan as a Data Science Intern. Atlan had an aura around its culture, so I…
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?…
Earlier this year in July, we hosted the first ever Delhi useR meetup in collaboration with the Delhi useR Group and R Consortium. We also had a chance to host a member of R-Core, creator of the lattice package, professor Deepayan Sarkar from the Indian Statistical Institute. You can watch the talks from the last meetup on our YouTube channel…
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…
The technology community today is very different than what it was a decade ago. With more and more focus on shared learning today, we are driven by collaborative projects and open source contributions. We are fortunate to witness this firsthand while hosting events that bring together fellow technologists, data enthusiasts, developers, and engineers from across Delhi NCR through Atlan Community…
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Note: This blog was last updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our internships. “Intern, who?” This is the answer, or a question, from Atlan interns if anybody…
What Silicon Valley tells us about building great teams When many people think of Silicon Valley, they think of current tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. But its story actually started four decades earlier with far more basic tech — the semiconductor. (This is how the area got its name, since silicon was one of the most widely…
Our Engineering Demos stemmed from a simple question — “How can we share knowledge among our engineers better?” All of our engineers were working on different, complex products, but they…