Grab is Southeast Asia (SEA)’s leading transportation platform and our mission is to drive SEA forward, leveraging on the latest technology and the talented people we have in the company. As of May 2017, we handle 2.3 million rides daily and we are growing and hiring at a rapid scale. To keep up with Grab’s phenomenal growth, our web team and web platforms have to grow as well. Fortunately, or unfortunately, at Grab, the web team has been keeping up with the latest best practices and has incorporated the modern JavaScript ecosystem in our web apps.

This article is part two of a two-part series. In this article, we will talk about RFC 6724 (3484), how DNS resolution works in Go and Cgo, and finally explaining why disabling IPv6 also disables the sorting of IP Addresses.

My name is Arul Kumaravel, VP of Engineering at Grab. Grab's mission is to drive Southeast Asia (SEA) forwards. Today I would like to share with you how AWS is helping us with this mission.

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.