Alan Engineering Blog

medium.com/alan · Company blog · on HN since 2021

The engineering blog of Alan, a health insurance company, covering Python performance, tooling, hiring, and how its teams work without managers.

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28HN people shared it
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38stories submitted
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7 months agolast shared
2021people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Switching from object-oriented Ruby to procedural Python
    2 people · 10 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    How we improved our Python backend start-up time
    2 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
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  5. 5
    Fighting Impostor Syndrome
    1 people · 7 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
  6. 6
    How our engineering teams run without managers
    1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    Technical Interview at Alan
    1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Working at Alan from Anywhere
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    Engineering Principles at Alan
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    Engineering: Titles and Roles
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Things you should know about dataclass
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Alan as a Service – The Technical Foundations
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    What we learned from a large refactoring
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    A bundler story: migrating from Webpack to Rspack
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    Generative Branding
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN

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