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    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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    What HN says

    The supplied HN comments give no opinion, so HN links it for Alan's Python engineering posts and its notes on team practices.

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    28HN people shared it
    38linked in comments
    89story points
    2026last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Switching from object-oriented Ruby to procedural Python
      2 people · 10 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
    2. 2
      How our engineering teams run without managers
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Technical Interview at Alan
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Fighting Impostor Syndrome
      1 person · 7 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
    5. 5
      How we improved our Python backend start-up time
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Engineering Principles at Alan
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Working at Alan from Anywhere
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Engineering: Titles and Roles
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Plugin development: Leveraging IDE Python type inference with type hints
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Optimizing our longest nightly job: a story of sessions, complexity, and toilets
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN

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