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The Feedback Loop: Improving the Quality of Context for Humans and AI
On building feedback loops for metadata, and what they become when AI enters the picture. "I found the dashboard I was looking for, but the description just repeated the title. I still didn't know…
How Ring Deployment Transformed Our Release Process: Safer, Faster, and Fully Automated
Let me paint a picture: Bob is a talented engineer, eager to make a difference on the team. He works hard and releases several changes to production. However, despite following the proper testing and…
Voices of Atlan: Advice We'd Give Our Younger Selves
One Day, I Asked Our First Female Engineer… One day, I asked our first female engineer at Atlan how things were going. Her response (Voices of Atlan) made me the proudest: "I've been in companies…
Interview Experience: Backend Engineering Internship at Atlan
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…
Going from Great People to Greater Teams: How We Think About Growth at Atlan
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…
Our 10 Engineering Commandments
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…
Engineering Demos: How We Share Our Knowledge and Build a Better Engineering Culture
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…
People as a Moat: What Startups Can Learn from McKinsey About Building a Strong Company
We are always thinking deeply about the "dent" Atlan could leave on the universe. We're asking ourselves, "What would it take to create a company that would have relevance for hundreds of years?" We…
How We Support Our People from Day One
Note: This blog was updated in September 2019 with the latest information about our people-ops processes. We're growing up here at Atlan! Our numbers have grown, and we're always preparing for new…
How We Live Our Cultural Values Every Day
Note: This blog was updated in August 2019 with the latest information about our team and cultural values. In the last few years, we scaled our products, welcomed hundreds of humans of data to our…