Grab has been transitioning from a Rails + NodeJS stack to a full Golang Service Oriented Architecture. To contribute to a single common code base, we wanted to transfer engineers working on the Rails server powering our passenger app APIs to other Go teams.

Grab is organising our first ever Grab Vietnam Careers Week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 22 to 26 October 2016. We are eager to have more engineers join our ranks to make a difference to improving transportation and reducing congestion in Southeast Asia. We are now on 23 million mobile devices supported by 460,000 drivers in the region, but we're only started and have much more to achieve! To find out more about Grab, take a look at our corporate profile at the end of this post.

I am honoured to receive the Best Fraud Prevention Innovation (Community Votes) Award at the 2016 Florin Awards on behalf of Grab. For those of you who voted for Grab, we thank you for your support that made this award possible.

While working on Grab's Common Data Service (CDS), there was the need to implement client side load balancing between CDS clients and servers. However, I kept encountering persistent connection issues with Elastic Load Balance (ELB).

The reasoning behind small sample sizes in qualitative usability research.

Perhaps one of the biggest missed opportunities in Tech in recent history is UX. Somehow, UX became the domain of Product Designers and User Interface Designers. While they definitely are the right people to be thinking about web pages, mobile app screens and so on, we've missed a huge part of what we engineers work on every day: SDKs and APIs.

Grab adopts a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to rapidly develop and deploy new feature services. One of the drawbacks of such a design is that team members find it hard to help with debugging production issues that inevitably arise in services belonging to other stakeholders.

Here at the Grab Engineering team, we have built our entire backend stack on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over time, it was inevitable that some habits have started to form when perceiving our backend monitoring statistics.