Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering 101: Observability & Visibility

Site Reliability Engineering 101: Observability & Visibility

We look at what it takes to build site reliability and how to fix problems within an application.

Feb 16, 2021

Mocking Techniques For Go

Mocking Techniques For Go

Discover the options for mocking your Go code in specific situations without a framework.

Dec 16, 2020

Implementing End-To-End Testing With Detox

Implementing End-To-End Testing With Detox

We dig into end-to-end testing in React Native with Detox, and why we made the switch.

Oct 21, 2020

9,600+ Investor-Backed Companies Received PPP Aid. Here’s How We’re Tracking The Data

9,600+ Investor-Backed Companies Received PPP Aid. Here’s How We’re Tracking The Data

On the CB Insights platform, you can view all the VC- and PE-backed companies that received PPP loans on our latest Paycheck Protection Program profile.

Aug 27, 2020

Salesforce Integration Update – Push Search Results & Company Data to Salesforce Faster Than Ever

Salesforce Integration Update – Push Search Results & Company Data to Salesforce Faster Than Ever

The CB Insights Salesforce integration allows you to push our search results and company profiles directly to Salesforce.

Engineering

May 5, 2020

Breaking Up Circular Dependencies

Breaking Up Circular Dependencies

We removed 235+ circular dependencies from our main web application, all with the help of teammates, a new build configuration, and a little data visualization.

Mar 4, 2020

Measuring The Success Of Your Team’s Design System

Measuring The Success Of Your Team’s Design System

We focus on 3 key areas to make sure our design system is successful: Adoption, coverage, and shared ownership.

Feb 11, 2020

Experimenting To Make Python Services Faster

Experimenting To Make Python Services Faster

We tested the implementation of Protobuf in C++ for Python to see if it would make inter-service communication more efficient.

Jan 29, 2020

Building An Aggregation Tool To Collect & Organize Data

Building An Aggregation Tool To Collect & Organize Data

There’s a wealth of data sources out there that could be useful when building a feed. Aggregating them in a way that makes sense for a user is key.

Dec 24, 2019

CB Insights Engineering: Expectations & What It Takes To Succeed

CB Insights Engineering: Expectations & What It Takes To Succeed

On the engineering team, we strive to work hard to deliver new and innovative solutions. We dig into what it takes to be successful.

Dec 20, 2019

Webpack Rebuild Improvement: How A One Line Change Yielded A 93% Increase

Webpack Rebuild Improvement: How A One Line Change Yielded A 93% Increase

As our product features have evolved, so has our codebase. Here is our approach to shortening build times.

Oct 21, 2019

How To Improve Single Page Application Health Monitoring

How To Improve Single Page Application Health Monitoring

We dig into the difficulties of monitoring the client side of a web application along with suggestions on how it can be done to enhance your application's reliability and end user experience.

Oct 3, 2019

CSS-In-JS Vs Traditional CSS — Which Should You Use?

CSS-In-JS Vs Traditional CSS — Which Should You Use?

At CB Insights, we adopt a traditional CSS approach. Here's why.

Sep 23, 2019

My Hack Day Retrospective: Deep Sentiment With BERT

How Google's BERT helped me make more progress in 1 day than I'd previously made in 30.

Jun 10, 2019

How CBI Built Best-In-Class — And Low Overhead — Data Pipelines

How CBI Built Best-In-Class — And Low Overhead — Data Pipelines

Our new self-reporting data pipelines needed to fulfill a number of important goals. Here's how we tackled the challenge.

May 29, 2019

CBI’s DevOps Needed A New Microservice Mesh. Here’s How We Tackled The Challenge

CBI’s DevOps Needed A New Microservice Mesh. Here’s How We Tackled The Challenge

As network architecture improves, it also gets more complex. Here's how the engineers at CBI dug into this challenge and created a best-in-class network architecture.

Apr 18, 2019

New For CB Insights Mobile: Enhanced Company Profiles

New For CB Insights Mobile: Enhanced Company Profiles

The latest update to the CB Insights iOS and Android apps is designed to give you key metrics for startups, investors, or corporations quickly and easily.

Apr 10, 2019

New For CB Insights Mobile: Personalized And Trending Research Now At Your Fingertips

New For CB Insights Mobile: Personalized And Trending Research Now At Your Fingertips

We made it easier to follow the research topics you care about on the CB Insights iOS and Android mobile apps.

Apr 10, 2019

6 Tips For Success In An Engineering Interview

Here are some tips and tricks to help ace your engineering interview at CB Insights.

Apr 3, 2019

Why Experience Isn’t Everything In Tech

Why Experience Isn’t Everything In Tech

Lessons from hosting our first Tech Meetup.

Mar 28, 2019

Always Be Learning: A CTO’s Advice To New Engineers

With more than two decades in the tech industry and having managed various teams for large global corporations and startups, CB Insights CTO Pål Høye gives advice to new engineers.

Mar 19, 2019

Introducing Mobile Notes: Share Ideas And Collaborate Across Your Organization — Anywhere, Anytime

Introducing Mobile Notes: Share Ideas And Collaborate Across Your Organization — Anywhere, Anytime

CB Insights clients have been using our messaging interface, Notes, on our website to effortlessly collaborate and discuss startups & trends. We’re excited to bring that same seamless experience to our mobile app so you can leave and respond to notes on the go.

Feb 12, 2019

Digging Into Our Code At The NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair

Digging Into Our Code At The NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair

At the NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair, we showed high school students how computer science concepts are used in the real world.

May 9, 2017

Teaching Your Computer How to Read: A Quick Glimpse into Natural Language Processing

A look at how we use natural language processing to improve the speed and accuracy of our data acquisition processes.

Mar 29, 2017

How Spotify Helped Us Build a Better Similar Company Algorithm

How Spotify Helped Us Build a Better Similar Company Algorithm

Understanding how Spotify Discover Weekly works helped us figure out how to build a better recommendations engine to identify similar startup companies.

Mar 5, 2017

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