Customer Feedback is a Development Opportunity
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch ExtraCrunch Online commerce accounted for nearly $518 billion in revenue in the United States alone last year. The growing number of…
Welcome to Revved, the CarGurus Engineering Blog
Written by the team building the world's most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace.
Meet the CTO: a Q&A with Kyle Lomeli
To start, can you give me the SparkNotes version of the CarGurus tech stack? We have a Java-based tech stack that relies on Spring and heavily modified Struts 2.0. We use…
Third Quarter Open Source Funding
Welcome to the third round of funding by CarGurus Open Source Fund! Each quarter, we give away over $20,000 to open source projects and organizations that are instrumental to the…
Getting into the Groove: The CarGurus Journey to Site Reliability Engineering
An Introduction A few years ago Google shared how they run their production environments when they published a book introducing Site Reliability Engineering to the world. At the…
Why devs should embrace project ownership and swift iteration
When you are looking to build development teams that deliver new features and products quickly and react fast to user feedback, I learned early in my career that one is better off…
Coding for Fun and the Culture of Learning
Recreational Programming If you were a “child of the ’80s” in the USA, there was a decent chance you had access to one of the 8-bit home computers of the era — either at home or…
Text & Semantic Analytics 📱
‘Data-Driven’ is a core value of ours here at CarGurus. We have a passion for data democratization and believe in enabling all parts of the business with analytical insights. As…
Second Quarter Open Source Funding
It’s time for our second ever open source fund giving announcement! If you don’t remember, CarGurus created our Open Source Fund so that we can give back to the giants upon whose…
Cutting our webpack build times in half 🕰
When I joined CarGurus last July, I didn’t really understand the scale at which the UI builds work. Our company has been around since 2007, and over a decade of continuous…
