Published in Flatiron Engineering·Mar 12, 2019Solving Fundamental Problems with CS FundamentalsBy Dan Ziring and Alex Padmos Identifying patients who are eligible for clinical trials is one of the fundamental challenges the cancer research community faces. While there are several personal reasons that may dissuade a patient from participating in research, there are also many logistical barriers — identifying a patient…Computer Science6 min readComputer Science6 min read
Published in Flatiron Engineering·Mar 29, 2018How We Run HackathonsBy Samantha Bail and Ovadia Harary In the first part of this blog post series, we talked about the main benefits of running internal company-wide hackathons. …Hackathons7 min readHackathons7 min read
Published in Flatiron Engineering·Mar 8, 2018Why We Love Running Hackathons at FlatironBy Samantha Bail & Ovadia Harary Hackathons have been a part of Flatiron Health since the company was founded in 2012. Our Chief Technology Officer (back then, Flatiron’s second engineer) Gil Shklarski brought the concept with him from his previous stint at Facebook. For Flatiron, our quarterly hackathons are meant…Hackathons5 min readHackathons5 min read
Published in Flatiron Engineering·Oct 13, 2016How To Fixit: Keep it simple. Take a day. Make it fun.By Ann Jaskiw Though the term technical debt often has a negative connotation, it is a common and often healthy side effect of rapid software development. Just as taking on a mortgage can be a well-calculated decision for an informed homeowner, amassing some technical debt to get a product out…Technical Debt4 min readTechnical Debt4 min read
Published in Flatiron Engineering·Sep 1, 2016Making the Most of Your Logs — DNS with SplunkBy Ann Jaskiw Prior to Flatiron, my main experience with logs was limited to scanning the output of tail -f on a flat file during a deploy or the occasional frantic search for strings like “error” when a system malfunctioned. I was excited when I discovered Silver Searcher, and started…Monitoring3 min readMonitoring3 min read
Published in Flatiron Engineering·Jun 23, 2016Manager Therapy for EngineersBy Maayan Roth Like most software engineers who transition into people management, I did most of my learning by trial and error. “Engineering Management 101” doesn’t appear anywhere on my college transcripts and to the best of my knowledge, is not a course that is offered as part of any…Management4 min readManagement4 min read
