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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Most-shared posts
- 1Switching from object-oriented Ruby to procedural Python2 people · 10 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 2How we improved our Python backend start-up time2 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 3Plugin development: Leveraging IDE Python type inference with type hints2 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 4Optimizing our longest nightly job: a story of sessions, complexity, and toilets2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5Fighting Impostor Syndrome1 people · 7 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 6How our engineering teams run without managers1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7Technical Interview at Alan1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8Working at Alan from Anywhere1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 9Engineering Principles at Alan1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 10Engineering: Titles and Roles1 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 11Things you should know about dataclass1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 12Alan as a Service – The Technical Foundations1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13What we learned from a large refactoring1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14A bundler story: migrating from Webpack to Rspack1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 15Generative Branding1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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