Tech & Innovation

Tech & Innovation

What do you do? I lead copy for Instacart across the Marketing and Product teams. Because we’re a growing brand, it’s really important that the messages in our apps, ads, emails, and every other audience...

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What it takes to be a Technical Program Manager By: Orit Shamir Orit is Instacart’s Senior Manager of Technical Program Management. She’s spent her career driving the design, integration, and launch of hardware programs at...

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What do you do? I’m a UX Researcher at Instacart. Most of my work to date has had a focus on understanding shopper motivations, behavior, values, and areas we can improve (both qualitatively and quantitatively)...

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Overview Grocery shopping seems like a relatively straightforward task — when it’s for yourself. When you shop for others, there are a lot of variables that can make the experience more complex. As someone begins...

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The basics of Terraform and RDS. At Instacart we are approaching a hundred PostgreSQL instances running in AWS RDS. They are all managed in Terraform. Using Terraform with RDS has caused a lot of pain...

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A Q&A with Instacart CTO, Mark Schaaf It’s been a busy few months. We’re seeing the highest customer demand in Instacart history and have more active shoppers on our platform today than ever before, picking...

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Exploring Certified Delivery’s checkout and delivery flows While Instacart’s bread and butter has always been and will continue to be grocery, many grocers and specialty retailers have a wide variety of items in their catalogs...

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While a lot of customers tell us they use Instacart to add valuable time back into their day, a community of users with mobility issues or visual impairments tell us they rely on our app...

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See Part 1 for the basics of RDS and Terraform. This post covers using Terraform with RDS and modules . Keep in mind the abstraction layer stack from the previous post, modules can have a...