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.

We're excited to share the publication of our paper GrabShare: The Construction of a Realtime Ridesharing Service, which was Grab's contribution to the Intelligent Transportation Engineering Conference in Singapore last month.

Disrupt or be disrupted - that was exactly the spirit in which the Growth Hacking team was created this year. This was a deliberate decision to nurture our scrappy DNA, and ensure that we had a dedicated space to experiment and enable intelligent risk-taking.

Launching GrabShare was no easy feat. After reviewing the academic literature, we decided to take a different approach and build a new matching algorithm from the ground up.

Hiring the first five Good Engineers in your team requires a different approach to hiring the first twenty Good Engineers. The approach to designing this process will be even more different, when you want to hire to scale up to a 100 Engineers... or even to 300.