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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…

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 usually had knowledge that could help each other out. For example, we didn’t need to build completely different front-end and backend developer workflows, or unique infrastructure for Collect (our mobile…

In 2016, we put down our 10 (base 10) Engineering Commandments, the values that our Engineering Team uses to guide its work. We didn’t use a long, complex process to create them. One of our first engineers sat down and took some time to articulate the ideas that we should use to guide our decisions, all based on industry best…

Building for the “next billion” is a challenge, thanks to difficulties posed by the lack of internet, electricity, and low-cost devices. At Atlan, we set out to build an Android data collection application that could work in the most remote, rugged parts of the world. We have been successful in building an Android application, Collect, that works without internet, on phones…