Driven By Code

Hack-A-Thon Winners!

The first annual TrueCar Hack-a-Thon has come to a dramatic conclusion! What an amazing week. For those of you who don’t…

Getting started with GlueStick (updated for GlueStick v1)

Getting started with GlueStick

We’re excited to announce that GlueStick, launched in 2015, has now reached v1.0! In case you missed our initial announcement, GlueStick is a command line interface (CLI)…

Flexible docker images with optional COPY

We use a general-purpose base image for all our Rails apps here at TrueCar. By leveraging the ONBUILD directive to do common setup tasks, we obviate the need for developers to copy + paste those common tasks in their Dockerfiles. Recently, the ability of…

GlueStick, Docker, and DigitalOcean’s Ubuntu 14.04

Leveraging TrueCar’s open source GlueStick, this tutorial will run through a simple process of setting up a GlueStick app with Docker on an Ubuntu server. Never heard of GlueStick before? GlueStick handles asset package management…

Creating PDFs from HTML with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

There are quite a few cases in which we’d like to be able to output a dynamic PDF (invoices, statements, receipts, etc.) However, our experience has been that working with PDF templates and editors is fairly painful. We would instead…

MLeap: Quickly Release Spark ML Pipelines

MLeap: Release Spark ML Pipelines
MLeap allows you to quickly deploy your Spark-trained ML pipelines to production. Learn how to go from a raw Avro file to serving a random forest price-prediction model from a JSON API server in just a few minutes.

How TrueCar Uses Kafka for High Volume Logging Part 2

Introduction

In my previous blog entry, I discussed configuring and setting up a production Kafka cluster to queue log messages. That article purposely started in the “middle” of the pipeline to describe how our…

Getting Started with GlueStick

Getting started with GlueStick

GlueStick, our final gift of 2015 to the world, was officially released on Christmas Day! In case you missed our initial announcement, GlueStick is a command line interface (CLI) that helps you rapidly develop universal…

GlueStick: A Command Line Interface for Building Universal Web Applications

TrueCar values transparency and strives to give back to the developer community at large. Given this generosity of spirit, we thought the world would like to see what our awesome dev teams are up to…