Posts by Clearbit Team

Long lead forms comes at the expense of customer experience, conversion rates and other down-funnel metrics. But letting everyone in the door with super-short forms hurts your sales teams, ultimately lowering close rates. Here's how Form Shortening removes the tradeoff.

How did a particle physics PhD become a tech program manager? That’s the career path of Tracy Thomas, our first Director of Technical Program Management. Read more about Tracy’s journey and what led her to Clearbit.

Rebecca Yang is our new VP of Engineering! She'll guide hiring, career development, and communication across our entire engineering organization. Plus, she'll oversee the processes, initiatives, and teams that drive Clearbit’s product development forward day-to-day.

Announcing our new Chief Financial Officer, Derek Schlicker! With deep expertise in enterprise SaaS, he joins at a time of rapid growth...

In Part 1 [https://clearbit.com/blog/servers-part-one] of this series we gave you an overview of the deployment process at Clearbit. In this post I'm going to talk about our how we use fleet to run our services. > Note: We use Amazon's EC2 system. In this article when I refer to a machine I'm really talking about an EC2 instance. I've used machine to avoid confusion with an instance (runnning process) of an application. Life before Fleet Before migrating over to CoreOS/Fleet we were using dok