By: Samad Patel This blog post delves into how we answered a challenging business question using pre-trained AWS Models. Our question required us to parse text from photos, then analyze the contents of that text. We used AWS Rekognition and Comprehend to extract and classify text from photos, followed by…

By: TrueCar Security and Compliance Team With the changes that came with a worldwide pandemic, TrueCar has safely ensured business continuity through rapid enablement of our 100% remote workforce. …

By: Wayne Pichotta Hackathons are a powerful tool to accelerate innovation by requiring usable and useful code in just a matter of days, these events prioritize substantive progress over lofty perfection. We’ve hosted several of these Hackathons internally at Truecar in the past few years, with a surprising number of…

By: Scott Chiang In this blog post, I will go over how we overcame performance issues on a production Elasticsearch cluster that powers TrueCar’s core business. TrueCar is a digital automotive marketplace that makes the car buying process simple, fair, and fun. We offer millions of vehicles for car shoppers…

By: Artem Shugayev Several years have passed since I last debugged MapReduce jobs running on a remote big data stack instead of my local machine. Much has changed since then, but the stack and its design remain pretty much the same. I’m still following the same steps to configure the…

By: Kate Seldman When I landed the role of Product Writer at TrueCar, I’d held several other positions that focused on capturing a brand’s voice and engaging with its audience. …

By: Joshua Go The story is familiar to any young company fortunate enough to survive and thrive beyond its early years: build fast, find a way to get things done, and jump on opportunities before the market moves on. This mode of operating works for years, until it doesn’t. And…

By: Regis Wilson Introduction Webpack can be used to bundle assets for websites so that browsers can load resources at runtime to display data. There are many things that Webpack can do for you, including the following: Loaders can transform, compile, transpile, minify, uglify, and compress static assets. Plugins can do…

By: Regis Wilson Introduction A common pattern for serving static content using Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to use CloudFront to deliver content from Simple Storage Service (S3). This pattern is quick and convenient for getting static assets published and viewed on the internet. However, there are some deeper issues and…