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.

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.