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 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…
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. In this blog, we outline these pillars and share more about how they guide the work done by the platform team at Atlan. ⚖️ Scalability Scalability is the ability of…
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…
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 2020. 🎉 Here’s what the magazine had to say: Atlan’s data workspace helps bring reproducibility to data and analytics assets, with easily shareable data profiles, metadata and documentation, project templates, and…
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 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 need it. Think minutes, not months. With the API, you can enrich your understanding of any entity—customers, outlets or geographies—by accessing indicators such as affluence, demographics and more. All updated…
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”.…
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? For many people, it’s ordinary maps. These are an important output of geospatial data, but it can actually be used for so much more. Geospatial data is at the heart…
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…
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 Delhi NCR. These meetups have helped us learn from others, share our work, and get different perspectives on things we are working on. We had a chance to host Node.js…
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…
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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 refers to them as “interns”. And, why not? None of our interns work as “interns” at Atlan, so why should they get addressed as one? Too often, companies give interns…
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…