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Capsela: What Was It, and Why Did We Do It?

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.

Before Capsela, we were severely limited by the following: We felt the drag on our productivity daily, and it was very clear that these issues were slowing us down.

To feed our data pipelines, we standardized on Apache HBase to rein in various datasets that had previously lived in Hive, various Avro files, and Microsoft SQL Server.

The frequency with which we were capable of publishing new images and new vehicle data went from weekly to several times a day.