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By: Grace Tsai TrueCar’s vehicle inventory data flow is powered by an extensive technology stack. The Apache Hadoop ecosystem, along with Spark and HBase, is used for processing vehicles fr...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/a-primer-on-elasticsearch-query-string-search-61488da7621e

By: Kyler Stole TrueCar’s Model Search offers a search results page (SRP) for virtual vehicle models. Combinable filters help you narrow down your vehicle needs to specific models that hav...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/improving-aggregations-performance-with-elasticsearch-43dbef0c1b35

By: Kyler Stole Are you a car shopper but don’t know which car fits your needs? TrueCar’s Model Search can help narrow it down. It consists of a search results page (SRP) of vehicle mode...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/activerecord-with-arel-in-a-composable-query-builder-fcf937668cf9

By: Kyler Stole If you ever struggle to express a query in ActiveRecord, you may be able to build it with Arel instead. Arel is the platform that manages the abstract syntax tree (AST) used ...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/6-useful-arel-techniques-for-composing-queries-544059e5f413

What are the benefits? How do I get started? How do I keep it interesting? By: Jason Stadther Lightning Talks are short presentations, usually between 5 and 10 minutes long, that focus on j...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/lightning-talks-making-presenting-less-scary-and-more-fun-10d352117840

By: Rohan Mendon Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash Looking into the future, the Holy Grail of any modern car-buying experience for consumers and dealers is to allow consumers to compl...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/how-we-built-the-esignature-step-in-truecar-5cb820e17aaf

By: Harrison DeSantis Maximizing Google’s crawl and indexation efficiency is one of the most important pillars for a successful technical SEO program, especially for a large enterprise site...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/how-to-qa-noindex-tags-in-a-staging-environment-7c4427f5f08d

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 c...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/using-machine-learning-to-understand-how-branding-in-photos-affects-the-car-shopping-experience-487ca50321cd

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 workfor...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/securing-truecar-miles-apart-d553b6964212

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 loft...

https://medium.com/driven-by-code/attack-of-the-hack-12288bd44788