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Thoughts from the Engineering team at Flatiron Health. We're building technology that enables cancer researchers and care providers to learn from the experience of every patient.

The future of legacy web applications

The future of legacy web applications

TLDR: In recent years, new ideas in web development frameworks have made it easy to build simple web applications. But improvements to…
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Diego Santana
Nov 18, 2022
Featured Stories
Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part I

Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part I

At Flatiron Health, one of our fundamental goals is to develop high-quality, de-identified datasets for cancer researchers. The team I…
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Roger Su
Aug 17, 2020
Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part II

Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part II

In Part I, we covered the inception of Spotlight engineering as a set of client project-focused engineers building tooling as they went…
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Roger Su
Aug 17, 2020
Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part III

Structuring & Scaling a Client-Facing Engineering Team: Part III

Model 3: Common platform teams
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Roger Su
Aug 17, 2020
Supersonic Pipelines

Supersonic Pipelines

Make your longest data pipeline run in ten min!
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Jorge Irazabal
Dec 23, 2019
Using inductive bias as a guide for effective machine learning prototyping

Using inductive bias as a guide for effective machine learning prototyping

At Flatiron, we’ve found that the path to building effective ML models is clearer when using the concept of inductive bias as a guide.
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Alexander Rich
Nov 5, 2019
5 Things I Learned from Transitioning into Software Engineering

5 Things I Learned from Transitioning into Software Engineering

Start with the right company and the right people. Then get ready to step outside your comfort zone and learn, learn, learn.
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Zachary Turechek
Sep 16, 2019
Latest Blog Posts
Recovering from a Jupyter Disaster

Recovering from a Jupyter Disaster

You can recover from many disasters around deleting a notebook. This guide will help you through the process.
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Marius van Niekerk
Mar 29, 2019
Solving Fundamental Problems with CS Fundamentals

Solving Fundamental Problems with CS Fundamentals

Identifying patients who are eligible for clinical trials is one of the fundamental challenges the cancer research community faces. While…
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Flatiron Health
Mar 12, 2019
Asking the Hard Questions

Asking the Hard Questions

There are weak spots in every company that no one likes to talk about. The network engineer who is the only one who can make changes to the…
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Catherine Miller
Feb 4, 2019
Why Metrics Matter When Inheriting Code: A Case Study

Why Metrics Matter When Inheriting Code: A Case Study

In my time as a software engineer, I have found that when inheriting legacy software it is overwhelming for the product and engineering…
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Allison Candido
May 29, 2018
How Precise is that Prognosis?

How Precise is that Prognosis?

Every day, almost 5,000 people around the country will hear the dreaded news that they have cancer. Each diagnosis kicks off a series of…
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Melissa Curtis
May 14, 2018
Why We Love Running Hackathons at Flatiron

Why We Love Running Hackathons at Flatiron

By Samantha Bail & Ovadia Harary
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Flatiron Health
Mar 8, 2018
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