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2026 27

  1. App stability at scale with a layered defense
  2. GrabMart data for faster disease outbreak detection
  3. Smarter personalization: How property data helps us understand user price sensitivity
  4. Powering AI-led research through simulation
  5. Automated merchant review summary system with integrated feedback
  6. Data Mesh at Grab (Part III): Operationalizing data reliability with automated DPIs
  7. Building Jarvis Pro: Route first, answer later
  8. Grab Bench: Evaluating AI on Grab-shaped production work
  9. How AI is transforming analytics at Grab
  10. Crowdsourced taxonomy verification: A feedback-driven framework for refining knowledge graph relationships via online search interactions
  11. Agent platform (Part 1): How we help Grab build and run AI agents at scale
  12. Data Database Engineering Scaling Grab's Data Lake: Our journey to Apache Iceberg adoption 10 Jul 2026 7 min read
  13. Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Migrating Counter Service storage: Design choices and learnings 3 Jul 2026 13 min read
  14. Security Containers Artificial Intelligence Scaling out Distroless adoption With AI 22 Jun 2026 11 min read
  15. Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Palana (Part 2): Architecting isolation, identity, and auditability for AI agents 21 Jun 2026 8 min read
  16. Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Palana (Part 1): Why Grab built a secure platform for autonomous AI Agents 19 Jun 2026 7 min read
  17. Blog TechDocs Engineering From decentralized Docs-as-Code to a centralized repository: Evolving Grab's documentation strategy 29 May 2026 7 min read
  18. Database Hugo FlinkSQL The Hugo evolution: Engineering Grab's unified, one-click data ingestion platform with Apache Flink 22 May 2026 7 min read
  19. Engineering Android Performance Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo 15 May 2026 15 min read
  20. Database Testing FlinkSQL Enhancing Flink deployment with shadow testing 7 May 2026 7 min read
  21. Data Database Engineering Data Mesh at Grab (Part II): The foundational tools behind certification 30 Apr 2026 16 min read
  22. AI Artificial Intelligence Analytics From firefighting to building: How AI agents restored our team’s core productivity 19 Mar 2026 18 min read
  23. AI Artificial Intelligence Enabling R8 optimization at scale with AI-assisted debugging 12 Mar 2026 15 min read
  24. App Disk Disk Size Optimization Reclaiming Terabytes: Optimizing Android image caching with TLRU 6 Mar 2026 14 min read
  25. AI Artificial Intelligence Cursor at Grab: Adoption and impact 29 Jan 2026 4 min read
  26. Database Docker lazy loading at Grab: Accelerating container startup times 21 Jan 2026 12 min read
  27. AI Artificial Intelligence LLM From deployment slop to production reality: How BriX bridges the gap with enterprise-grade AI infrastructure 16 Jan 2026 19 min read

2025 29

  1. Mobile iOS Android Demystifying user journeys: Revolutionizing troubleshooting with auto tracking 23 Dec 2025 9 min read
  2. Database FlinkSQL How Grab is accelerating growth with real-time personalization using Customer Data Platform scenarios 18 Dec 2025 7 min read
  3. Engineering Performance A Decade of Defense: Celebrating Grab's 10th Year Bug Bounty Program 1 Dec 2025 6 min read
  4. Engineering Kafka Performance Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test 26 Nov 2025 8 min read
  5. Engineering Performance SpellVault’s evolution: Beyond LLM apps, towards the agentic future 21 Nov 2025 11 min read
  6. Engineering Performance Grab's Mac Cloud Exit supercharges macOS CI/CD 6 Nov 2025 13 min read
  7. Engineering Performance How we built a custom vision LLM to improve document processing at Grab 4 Nov 2025 10 min read
  8. Engineering Performance Data Science Machine-learning predictive autoscaling for Flink 30 Oct 2025 13 min read
  9. Engineering Performance Data Science Modernising Grab’s model serving platform with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server 21 Oct 2025 8 min read
  10. Database Highly concurrent in-memory counter in GoLang 6 Oct 2025 11 min read
  11. AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning User foundation models for Grab 26 Sep 2025 19 min read
  12. Database Data Apache Powering Partner Gateway metrics with Apache Pinot 23 Sep 2025 13 min read
  13. Engineering Monorepo Go Taming the monorepo beast: Our journey to a leaner, faster GitLab repo 16 Sep 2025 17 min read
  14. Data Database Engineering Data mesh at Grab part I: Building trust through certification 19 Aug 2025 8 min read
  15. Database AWS The evolution of Grab's machine learning feature store 24 Jul 2025 11 min read
  16. Microservice Service Mesh Kubernetes Grab's service mesh evolution: From Consul to Istio 16 Jul 2025 7 min read
  17. Dispatch Python DispatchGym: Grab’s reinforcement learning research framework 7 Jul 2025 7 min read
  18. Database Rust Data Counter Service: How we rewrote it in Rust 20 Jun 2025 13 min read
  19. Database FlinkSQL The complete stream processing journey on FlinkSQL 12 Jun 2025 8 min read
  20. Access Control Engineering Security Effortless enterprise authentication at Grab: Dex in action 23 May 2025 9 min read
  21. Engineering Optimization AI From failure to success: The birth of GrabGPT, Grab’s internal ChatGPT 19 May 2025 4 min read
  22. Engineering Generative AI LLM Streamlining RiskOps with the SOP agent framework 8 May 2025 5 min read
  23. Engineering Generative AI LLM Introducing the SOP-driven LLM agent frameworks 25 Apr 2025 6 min read
  24. Database Engineering Event Processing Evaluating performance impact of removing Redis-cache from a Scylla-backed service 11 Apr 2025 16 min read
  25. Blog TechDocs Engineering Facilitating Docs-as-Code implementation for users unfamiliar with Markdown 4 Apr 2025 9 min read
  26. Data Pipeline Data Reliability Data Observability Improving Hugo stability and addressing oncall challenges through automation 20 Mar 2025 8 min read
  27. Spark Observability StarRocks Data Engineering Building a Spark observability product with StarRocks: Real-time and historical performance analysis 6 Mar 2025 25 min read
  28. Blog TechDocs Engineering TechDocs at Grab: Cultivating a culture of quality documentation 27 Feb 2025 11 min read
  29. Engineering Data Science Optimization Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to multiple GenAI providers 19 Feb 2025 10 min read

2024 27

  1. Engineering Security Embracing passwordless authentication with Grab’s Passkey 26 Dec 2024 9 min read
  2. Engineering Optimization Product Turbocharging GrabUnlimited with Temporal 12 Dec 2024 16 min read
  3. Engineering Optimization Data Streaming How we seamlessly migrated high volume real-time streaming traffic from one service to another with zero data loss and duplication 5 Dec 2024 4 min read
  4. Engineering Generative AI LLM Supercharging LLM application development with LLM-Kit 29 Nov 2024 7 min read
  5. Engineering Optimization Service How we reduced initialisation time of Product Configuration Management SDK 22 Nov 2024 6 min read
  6. Engineering Generative AI LLM Metasense V2: Enhancing, improving and productionisation of LLM powered data governance 14 Nov 2024 6 min read
  7. Engineering Optimization Service How we reduced peak memory and CPU usage of the product configuration management SDK 30 Oct 2024 8 min read
  8. Engineering Generative AI LLM LLM-assisted vector similarity search 23 Oct 2024 8 min read
  9. Engineering Generative AI LLM Leveraging RAG-powered LLMs for analytical tasks 9 Oct 2024 7 min read
  10. Machine Learning Models Data Science Evolution of Catwalk: Model serving platform at Grab 1 Oct 2024 8 min read
  11. Data Discovery AI Artificial Intelligence Enabling conversational data discovery with LLMs at Grab 26 Sep 2024 10 min read
  12. Engineering Android Exploration Bringing Grab’s Live Activity to Android: Enhancing user experience through custom notifications 23 Sep 2024 9 min read
  13. Engineering Generative AI LLM Unveiling the process: The creation of our powerful campaign builder 10 Sep 2024 11 min read
  14. Engineering Generative AI LLM Chimera Sandbox: A scalable experimentation and development platform for Notebook services 27 Aug 2024 8 min read
  15. Chat Chat Support Engineering How we improved translation experience with cost efficiency 5 Aug 2024 10 min read
  16. Data Machine Learning Generative AI LLM-powered data classification for data entities at scale 15 Jul 2024 11 min read
  17. Go Optimization Experiment Profile-guided optimisation (PGO) on Grab services 5 Jun 2024 7 min read
  18. Marketing Metrics Optimization How we evaluated the business impact of marketing campaigns 23 May 2024 6 min read
  19. Stability Automation Optimization No version left behind: Our epic journey of GitLab upgrades 3 May 2024 11 min read
  20. Data Science Security Risk Ensuring data reliability and observability in risk systems 23 Apr 2024 6 min read
  21. Data Science Experiment Statistics Grab Experiment Decision Engine - a Unified Toolkit for Experimentation 9 Apr 2024 15 min read
  22. Data Insights Metrics Decision Making Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making 3 Apr 2024 19 min read
  23. App Size Optimization Project Bonsai Android App Size at Scale with Project Bonsai 1 Mar 2024 14 min read
  24. Data Analytics Stream Processing Kafka Enabling near real-time data analytics on the data lake 23 Feb 2024 8 min read
  25. Attribution Platform User Journeys Advertising The journey of building a comprehensive attribution platform 20 Feb 2024 9 min read
  26. Dynamic Marketplace Content Moderation Scalability Managing dynamic marketplace content at scale: Grab's approach to content moderation 1 Feb 2024 3 min read
  27. Kafka Kubernetes Data Streaming Rethinking Stream Processing: Data Exploration 31 Jan 2024 12 min read

2023 25

  1. Kafka Kubernetes AWS Kafka on Kubernetes: Reloaded for fault tolerance 26 Dec 2023 20 min read
  2. Security Bug Bounty HackerOne Championing CyberSecurity: Grab's bug bounty programme in 2023 19 Dec 2023 4 min read
  3. Data Big Data Rate-Limiting Sliding window rate limits in distributed systems 14 Dec 2023 11 min read
  4. Data Data Streaming Real-Time Streaming An elegant platform 30 Nov 2023 16 min read
  5. Maps Data Big Data Road localisation in GrabMaps 17 Nov 2023 13 min read
  6. Graph Technology Graphs Graph Networks Graph modelling guidelines 8 Nov 2023 4 min read
  7. Data Advertising Scalability Scaling marketing for merchants with targeted and intelligent promos 11 Oct 2023 7 min read
  8. Data Advertising Scalability Stepping up marketing for advertisers: Scalable lookalike audience 22 Sep 2023 8 min read
  9. Maps Data Big Data Building hyperlocal GrabMaps 30 Aug 2023 6 min read
  10. Backend Performance Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency 15 Aug 2023 8 min read
  11. Data Science Graph Networks Graphs Unsupervised graph anomaly detection - Catching new fraudulent behaviours 2 Aug 2023 8 min read
  12. Engineering Kafka Performance Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers 7 Jul 2023 9 min read
  13. Engineering Go module proxy at Grab 30 Jun 2023 14 min read
  14. Engineering Privacy Data Masking PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning 1 Jun 2023 9 min read
  15. Engineering Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation 23 May 2023 9 min read
  16. iOS Mobile Engineering How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools 18 May 2023 7 min read
  17. Engineering Virtual Machines Faster 2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine 15 May 2023 5 min read
  18. Engineering Deployment Streaming Applications Safer deployment of streaming applications 2 May 2023 9 min read
  19. Engineering GrabChat Redesign Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp 17 Apr 2023 5 min read
  20. Engineering Technology Stack Exploration Evolution of quality at Grab 31 Mar 2023 8 min read
  21. Engineering Technology Stack Exploration How OVO determined the right technology stack for their web-based projects 21 Mar 2023 7 min read
  22. Engineering Access Control Security Migrating from Role to Attribute-based Access Control 9 Mar 2023 10 min read
  23. Engineering Open Source Pipelines Securing GitOps pipelines 1 Mar 2023 10 min read
  24. Engineering Geohash Maps New zoom freezing feature for Geohash plugin 21 Feb 2023 4 min read
  25. Engineering Graph Networks Graphs Graph service platform 5 Jan 2023 7 min read

2022 24

  1. Engineering Kafka Performance Zero trust with Kafka 7 Dec 2022 9 min read
  2. Engineering GrabMaps KartaCam How KartaCam powers GrabMaps 1 Dec 2022 8 min read
  3. Analytics Data Science Security Graph for fraud detection 24 Nov 2022 9 min read
  4. Analytics Data Science Query expansion based on user behaviour 16 Nov 2022 6 min read
  5. Analytics Driving Patterns Data Science Using mobile sensor data to encourage safer driving 25 Oct 2022 12 min read
  6. Testing Automation Backtesting Automatic rule backtesting with large quantities of data 8 Sep 2022 6 min read
  7. Database Storage Distributed Systems How we store and process millions of orders daily 15 Aug 2022 9 min read
  8. Automation Knowledge Management Productivity How we automated FAQ responses at Grab 13 Jul 2022 8 min read
  9. Security Graphs Concepts Graph Technology Graph Networks - 10X investigation with Graph Visualisations 30 Jun 2022 5 min read
  10. Security Facial Recognition How facial recognition technology keeps you safe 9 Jun 2022 12 min read
  11. Security Graphs Concepts Graph Technology Graph concepts and applications 2 Jun 2022 15 min read
  12. Experiment Experimental Analysis Azure Databricks Automated Experiment Analysis - Making experimental analysis scalable 30 May 2022 7 min read
  13. Architecture Optimization Search Search architecture revamp 17 May 2022 5 min read
  14. Docs-as-Code Documentation TechDocs Embracing a Docs-as-Code approach 4 May 2022 4 min read
  15. Graph Networks Graphs Fraud Detection Graph Networks - Striking fraud syndicates in the dark 28 Apr 2022 4 min read
  16. CI Machine Learning Pipelines How we reduced our CI YAML files from 1800 lines to 50 lines 19 Apr 2022 8 min read
  17. Kafka Data Processing Real-Time How Kafka Connect helps move data seamlessly 6 Apr 2022 8 min read
  18. Kafka Scheduling Stream Processing Supporting large campaigns at scale 1 Apr 2022 7 min read
  19. Engineering Data Science Driving Patterns How telematics helps Grab to improve safety 24 Mar 2022 5 min read
  20. Engineering Data Ingestion Real-time data ingestion in Grab 14 Mar 2022 10 min read
  21. Engineering Event Processing Optimization Abacus - Issuing points for multiple sources 1 Mar 2022 10 min read
  22. Engineering Cloud Kafka Exposing a Kafka Cluster via a VPC Endpoint Service 18 Feb 2022 8 min read
  23. Engineering Ads Design How Grab built a scalable, high-performance ad server 11 Feb 2022 7 min read
  24. Engineering Security Biometric authentication - Why do we need it? 20 Jan 2022 6 min read

2021 19

  1. Data Science Research Using real-world patterns to improve matching in theory and practice 22 Nov 2021 12 min read
  2. Design Product Database Designing products and services based on Jobs to be Done 21 Oct 2021 7 min read
  3. Engineering Data Database Search indexing optimisation 27 Sep 2021 11 min read
  4. Engineering Testing Optimization Automating Multi-Armed Bandit testing during feature rollout 1 Sep 2021 6 min read
  5. Product Asset Size Cloud How We Cut GrabFood.com’s Page JavaScript Asset Sizes by 3x 29 Jul 2021 15 min read
  6. Engineering Machine Learning Data Protecting Personal Data in Grab's Imagery 26 Jul 2021 15 min read
  7. Pipelines Data ETL Processing ETL tasks with Ratchet 19 Jul 2021 9 min read
  8. App Build Time Engineering App Modularisation at Scale 13 Jul 2021 5 min read
  9. Product Design Chat Support Reshaping Chat Support for Our Users 7 Jul 2021 9 min read
  10. Engineering Latency Debugging Debugging High Latency Due to Context Leaks 30 Jun 2021 8 min read
  11. Engineering Machine Learning Statistics Building a Hyper Self-Service, Distributed Tracing and Feedback System for Rule & Machine Learning (ML) Predictions 24 May 2021 9 min read
  12. Deployment CI Continuous Integration Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 2) 10 May 2021 9 min read
  13. Engineering Machine Learning Consumer Support How We Improved Agent Chat Efficiency with Machine Learning 19 Apr 2021 11 min read
  14. Automation Engineering Marketing How Grab Leveraged Performance Marketing Automation to Improve Conversion Rates by 30% 22 Mar 2021 5 min read
  15. Backend Engineering Golang One Small Step Closer to Containerising Service Binaries 23 Feb 2021 7 min read
  16. Workforce Routing Chat Product Customer Support Workforce Routing 5 Feb 2021 11 min read
  17. Mirror Cache Data at Scale Serving Driver-partners Data at Scale Using Mirror Cache 26 Jan 2021 9 min read
  18. GrabMart Product The GrabMart Journey 18 Jan 2021 5 min read
  19. A/B Testing Event Processing Trident - Real-time Event Processing at Scale 13 Jan 2021 15 min read

2020 21

  1. Real-Time K Nearest Neighbor Search Spatial Data Store Distributed Systems Pharos - Searching Nearby Drivers on Road Network at Scale 22 Dec 2020 15 min read
  2. Security HackerOne Bug Bounty Reflecting on the Five Years of Bug Bounty at Grab 16 Dec 2020 6 min read
  3. Bazel Android iOS How Grab is Blazing Through the Superapp Bazel Migration 3 Dec 2020 15 min read
  4. Pricing Event Sourcing Fare Storage Democratising Fare Storage at Scale Using Event Sourcing 23 Nov 2020 10 min read
  5. Mobile Android Engineering Keeping 170 Libraries Up to Date on a Large Scale Android App 30 Oct 2020 6 min read
  6. Event Sourcing Stream Processing Kubernetes Optimally Scaling Kafka Consumer Applications 13 Oct 2020 6 min read
  7. Deployment CI Continuous Integration Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 1) 23 Sep 2020 16 min read
  8. Redis Lua Scripts High CPU Usage Uncovering the Truth Behind Lua and Redis Data Consistency 7 Sep 2020 7 min read
  9. Engineering Presto Data Securing and Managing Multi-cloud Presto Clusters with Grab’s DataGateway 24 Aug 2020 10 min read
  10. Go Monorepo Vendoring Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 2) 12 Aug 2020 5 min read
  11. Engineering Data Pipeline Scheduling The Journey of Deploying Apache Airflow at Grab 14 Jul 2020 11 min read
  12. Chat Web Customer Support How We Built Our In-house Chat Platform for the Web 29 Jun 2020 13 min read
  13. Go Monorepo Vendoring Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 1) 29 May 2020 7 min read
  14. Data Data Analytics Data Visualization Does Southeast Asia Run on Coffee? 26 Mar 2020 5 min read
  15. Data Data Analytics Data Visualization GrabChat Much? Talk Data to Me! 24 Mar 2020 7 min read
  16. Data Data Analytics 7 Fun Facts about Grab’s Driver-Partners in Singapore 20 Mar 2020 4 min read
  17. Xcode Testing Mobile Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing 16 Mar 2020 11 min read
  18. Mobile Android Performance Returning 575 Terabytes of Storage Space to Our Users 25 Feb 2020 5 min read
  19. GPS Datasets Maps Grab-Posisi - Southeast Asia’s First Comprehensive GPS Trajectory Dataset 20 Feb 2020 7 min read
  20. Resiliency Circuit Breakers How We Prevented App Performance Degradation from Sudden Ride Demand Spikes 8 Jan 2020 5 min read
  21. Event Sourcing Stream Processing Kubernetes Plumbing At Scale 6 Jan 2020 11 min read

2019 33

  1. Superapp Mobile Performance Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts 26 Dec 2019 12 min read
  2. Backend Testing Microservice Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation 23 Dec 2019 9 min read
  3. Backend Go How We Implemented Domain-Driven Development in Golang 21 Nov 2019 9 min read
  4. Design User Research Driving Southeast Asia Forward Through People-Focused Design 5 Nov 2019 14 min read
  5. Engineering Anti-Fraud Security Griffin, an Anti-fraud Risk Rule Engine Making Billions of Predictions Daily 28 Oct 2019 13 min read
  6. Engineering Anti-Fraud Security Using Grab’s Trust Counter Service to Detect Fraud Successfully 21 Oct 2019 10 min read
  7. Career Engineering Microservice Being a Principal Engineer at Grab 25 Sep 2019 7 min read
  8. Data Pipeline Data First, SLA Always 1 Aug 2019 11 min read
  9. Maps Data Save Your Place with Grab! 1 Aug 2019 5 min read
  10. Data Maps Tech No More Forgetting to Input ERP Charges - Hello Automated ERP! 31 Jul 2019 6 min read
  11. Logging How We Built a Logging Stack at Grab 31 Jul 2019 11 min read
  12. Superapp Feed Recommendations Making Grab’s Everyday App Super 3 Jul 2019 7 min read
  13. Machine Learning Models Data Science Catwalk: Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale 2 Jul 2019 12 min read
  14. Grab Mobile GrabPay React Native in GrabPay 30 May 2019 7 min read
  15. Design Service Design Connecting the Invisibles to Design Seamless Experiences 28 May 2019 4 min read
  16. Data Analytics Data Analytics Tourists on GrabChat! 22 May 2019 7 min read
  17. Data Analytics Data Analytics Bubble Tea Craze on GrabFood! 9 May 2019 4 min read
  18. Hyperlocal Immersion Why You Should Organise an Immersion Trip for Your Next Project 7 May 2019 9 min read
  19. Grab Backend Redis Preventing Pipeline Calls from Crashing Redis Clusters 5 May 2019 9 min read
  20. Grab Data Tech Guiding You Door-to-Door via Our Superapp! 12 Apr 2019 5 min read
  21. Backend Service Mobile Loki, a Dynamic Mock Server for HTTP/TCP Testing 10 Apr 2019 10 min read
  22. Data Science How We Harnessed the Wisdom of Crowds to Improve Restaurant Location Accuracy 2 Apr 2019 8 min read
  23. Resiliency Microservice Chaos Engineering Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 3): Architecture Patterns and Chaos Engineering 27 Mar 2019 6 min read
  24. Resiliency Microservice Bulkheading Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 2): Bulkheading, Load Balancing, and Fallbacks 25 Mar 2019 8 min read
  25. Resiliency Microservice Rate-Limiting Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 1): Rate-Limiting 20 Mar 2019 7 min read
  26. Resiliency Microservice Context Deadlines and How to Set Them 11 Mar 2019 19 min read
  27. Analytics Data Data Analytics Recipe for Building a Widget: How We Helped to “Peak-Shift” Demand by Helping Passengers Understand Travel Trends 7 Mar 2019 12 min read
  28. Logging Structured Logging: The Best Friend You’ll Want When Things Go Wrong 5 Mar 2019 13 min read
  29. Big Data Data Pipeline How We Simplified Our Data Ingestion & Transformation Process 3 Mar 2019 9 min read
  30. Analytics Data Data Analytics Understanding Supply & Demand in Ride-hailing Through the Lens of Data 20 Feb 2019 7 min read
  31. Big Data Data Pipeline Experiment A Lean and Scalable Data Pipeline to Capture Large Scale Events and Support Experimentation Platform 16 Jan 2019 15 min read
  32. Resiliency Circuit Breakers Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2) 8 Jan 2019 14 min read
  33. Big Data Real-Time Database Querying Big Data in Real-time with Presto & Grab's TalariaDB 2 Jan 2019 10 min read

2018 12

  1. Resiliency Circuit Breakers Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1) 21 Dec 2018 17 min read
  2. Chaos Engineering Resiliency Microservice Orchestrating Chaos Using Grab's Experimentation Platform 23 Nov 2018 7 min read
  3. Experiment Backend Frontend Reliable and Scalable Feature Toggles and A/B Testing SDK at Grab 2 Nov 2018 12 min read
  4. Backend Service Testing Mockers - Overcoming Testing Challenges at Grab 18 Sep 2018 9 min read
  5. Analytics Data Data Analytics Journey of a Tourist via Grab 11 Sep 2018 6 min read
  6. Quota Backend Service How We Designed the Quotas Microservice to Prevent Resource Abuse 10 Aug 2018 11 min read
  7. Data Science BOH Grab Senior Data Scientist Liuqin Yang Wins Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize 20 Jul 2018 4 min read
  8. Experiment Backend Frontend Building Grab’s Experimentation Platform 13 Jul 2018 8 min read
  9. Backend Engineering Golang Introducing Grab-Kit: Distributed Service Design at Grab 8 Jun 2018 6 min read
  10. Chat Booking Experiment How Grab Experimented with Chat to Drive Down Booking Cancellations 1 Mar 2018 5 min read
  11. Backend Database Distributed Systems Deep Dive into Database Timeouts in Rails 29 Jan 2018 14 min read
  12. AWS Meltdown Dealing with the Meltdown Patch at Grab 7 Jan 2018 6 min read

2017 19

  1. Data Science GrabShare GrabShare at the Intelligent Transportation Engineering Conference 13 Dec 2017 3 min read
  2. Growth Hacking Grabbing Growth: A Growth Hacking Story 8 Dec 2017 5 min read
  3. Data Science GrabShare The Data and Science Behind GrabShare Part I: Verifying Potential and Developing the Algorithm 20 Oct 2017 10 min read
  4. Hiring The Art of Hiring Good Engineers 4 Oct 2017 8 min read
  5. Backend Redis Migrating Existing Datastores 8 Aug 2017 7 min read
  6. Hiring So You Need to Hire Good Engineers 24 Jul 2017 6 min read
  7. Security Come and #hackallthethings at Grab 11 Jul 2017 2 min read
  8. Backend Redis How We Scaled Our Cache and Got a Good Night's Sleep 19 Jun 2017 5 min read
  9. Frontend JavaScript Web Grab's Front End Study Guide 3 Jun 2017 26 min read
  10. Golang Networking DNS Resolution in Go and Cgo 24 May 2017 13 min read
  11. AWS Driving Southeast Asia Forward with AWS 21 May 2017 7 min read
  12. Data Science Product Management How to Go from a Quick Idea to an Essential Feature in Four Steps 16 May 2017 7 min read
  13. AWS Networking Troubleshooting Unusual AWS ELB 5XX Error 10 May 2017 17 min read
  14. Analytics AWS Data Scaling Like a Boss with Presto 1 May 2017 11 min read
  15. Continuous Delivery iOS Mobile Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Continuous Delivery 23 Apr 2017 5 min read
  16. Continuous Integration iOS Mobile Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Integration Testing 18 Apr 2017 6 min read
  17. Backend Redis A Key Expired in Redis, You Won't Believe What Happened Next 27 Mar 2017 7 min read
  18. Hiring How Grab Hires Engineers in Singapore 16 Feb 2017 7 min read
  19. Hiring Battling with Tech Giants for the World's Best Talent 18 Jan 2017 3 min read

2016 7

  1. AWS Golang Ruby This Rocket Ain't Stopping - Achieving Zero Downtime for Rails to Golang API Migration 18 Oct 2016 7 min read
  2. Hiring Grab Vietnam Careers Week 14 Oct 2016 5 min read
  3. User Trust GrabPay Wins Best Fraud Prevention Innovation at the Florin Awards 12 Oct 2016 2 min read
  4. Backend Data Distributed Systems Round-robin in Distributed Systems 27 Sep 2016 5 min read
  5. User Research UX Why Test the Design with Only 5 Users 26 Aug 2016 5 min read
  6. API UX Programmers Beware - UX is Not Just for Designers 5 Jul 2016 10 min read
  7. Post Mortem Grab You Some Post-Mortem Reports 4 Feb 2016 5 min read

2015 1

  1. AWS The Curious Case of the Phantom Instance 28 Dec 2015 7 min read