How do you work within a startup team and build a quick idea into a key feature for an app that impacts millions of people? It's one of those things that is hard to understand when you just graduate as an engineer.

This article is part one of a two-part series. In this article we explain the ELB 5XX errors which we experience without an apparent reason. We walk you through our investigative process and show you our immediate solution to this production issue. In the second article, we will explain why the non-intuitive immediate solution works and how we eventually found a more permanent solution.

A year ago, the data volumes at Grab were much lower than the volume we currently use for data-driven analytics. We had a simple and robust infrastructure in place to gather, process and store data to be consumed by numerous downstream applications, while supporting the requirements for data science and analytics.

This is the second part of our series "Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab", where we will cover how we manage continuous delivery. As a common solution to Apple developer account device whitelist limitation, we use an enterprise account to distribute beta apps internally. There are 4 build configurations per target.

This is the first part of our series "Deep Dive Into iOS Automation At Grab", where we will cover testing automation in the iOS team. Over the past two years at Grab, the iOS passenger app team has grown from 3 engineers in Singapore to 20 globally. Back then, each one of us was busy shipping features and had no time to set up a proper automation process.

One of Grab's more popular caching solutions is Redis (often in the flavour of the misleadingly named ElastiCache), and for most cases, it works. Except for that time it didn't. Follow our story as we investigate how Redis deals with consistency on key expiration.

Working at Grab will be the “most challenging yet rewarding opportunity” any employee will ever encounter.

Grab steadily attracts a diverse set of engineers from around the world in its three R&D centres: Singapore, Seattle, and Beijing. Right now, half of Grab’s top leadership team is made up of women and we have attracted people from five continents to work together on solving the biggest challenges for Southeast Asia.