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Building Grab’s Experimentation Platform
At Grab, we continuously strive to improve the user experience of our app for both our passengers and driver partners. To do that, we’re constantly experimenting, and in fact, many of the improvements we roll out to the Grab app are a direct result of successful experiments.
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Introducing Grab-Kit: Distributed Service Design at Grab
As we evolved from a single monolithic application to a microservices-based architecture, we were faced with a new challenge. How do we support exponential growth while maintaining consistency, coordination, and quality?
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How Grab experimented with chat to drive down booking cancellations
At Grab, we consistently strive to build a platform that delivers excellent user experience to both our Passengers and Driver-Partners. A major degradation to a seamless booking experience is the cancellation of that booking.
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Deep Dive into Database Timeouts in Rails
Disaster strikes when you do not configure timeout values properly. In this post, we dive into the details of how timeouts work with Ruby on Rails and Databases.
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Dealing with the Meltdown patch at Grab
The meltdown attack reported recently had far reaching implications in terms of security as well as performance. This post is a quick rundown of what performance impacts we noted as well as how we went on to mitigate them.
