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    Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency cover photo
    Backend Performance

    Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency

    15 Aug 2023 8 min read

    Unsupervised graph anomaly detection - Catching new fraudulent behaviours cover photo
    Data Science Graph Networks Graphs

    Unsupervised graph anomaly detection - Catching new fraudulent behaviours

    2 Aug 2023 8 min read

    Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers cover photo
    Engineering Kafka Performance

    Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers

    7 Jul 2023 9 min read

    Go module proxy at Grab cover photo
    Engineering

    Go module proxy at Grab

    30 Jun 2023 14 min read

    PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning cover photo
    Engineering Privacy Data Masking

    PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning

    1 Jun 2023 9 min read

    Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation cover photo
    Engineering

    Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation

    23 May 2023 9 min read

    How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools cover photo
    iOS Mobile Engineering

    How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools

    18 May 2023 7 min read

    2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine cover photo
    Engineering Virtual Machines Faster

    2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine

    15 May 2023 5 min read

    Safer deployment of streaming applications cover photo
    Engineering Deployment Streaming Applications

    Safer deployment of streaming applications

    2 May 2023 9 min read

    Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp cover photo
    Engineering GrabChat Redesign

    Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp

    17 Apr 2023 5 min read



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Palana (Part 1): Why Grab built a secure platform for autonomous AI Agents cover photo
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From decentralized Docs-as-Code to a centralized repository: Evolving Grab's documentation strategy cover photo
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29 May 2026 7 min read

The Hugo evolution: Engineering Grab's unified, one-click data ingestion platform with Apache Flink cover photo
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22 May 2026 7 min read

Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo cover photo
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15 May 2026 15 min read

Enhancing Flink deployment with shadow testing cover photo
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7 May 2026 7 min read

Data Mesh at Grab (Part II): The foundational tools behind certification cover photo
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From firefighting to building: How AI agents restored our team’s core productivity cover photo
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Cursor at Grab: Adoption and impact cover photo
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29 Jan 2026 4 min read

Docker lazy loading at Grab: Accelerating container startup times cover photo
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21 Jan 2026 12 min read

From deployment slop to production reality: How BriX bridges the gap with enterprise-grade AI infrastructure cover photo
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16 Jan 2026 19 min read

Demystifying user journeys: Revolutionizing troubleshooting with auto tracking cover photo
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Demystifying user journeys: Revolutionizing troubleshooting with auto tracking

23 Dec 2025 9 min read

How Grab is accelerating growth with real-time personalization using Customer Data Platform scenarios cover photo
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How Grab is accelerating growth with real-time personalization using Customer Data Platform scenarios

18 Dec 2025 7 min read

A Decade of Defense: Celebrating Grab's 10th Year Bug Bounty Program cover photo
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A Decade of Defense: Celebrating Grab's 10th Year Bug Bounty Program

1 Dec 2025 6 min read

Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test cover photo
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Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test

26 Nov 2025 8 min read

SpellVault’s evolution: Beyond LLM apps, towards the agentic future cover photo
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SpellVault’s evolution: Beyond LLM apps, towards the agentic future

21 Nov 2025 11 min read

Grab's Mac Cloud Exit supercharges macOS CI/CD cover photo
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Grab's Mac Cloud Exit supercharges macOS CI/CD

6 Nov 2025 13 min read

How we built a custom vision LLM to improve document processing at Grab cover photo
Engineering Performance

How we built a custom vision LLM to improve document processing at Grab

4 Nov 2025 10 min read

Machine-learning predictive autoscaling for Flink cover photo
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Machine-learning predictive autoscaling for Flink

30 Oct 2025 13 min read

Modernising Grab’s model serving platform with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server cover photo
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Modernising Grab’s model serving platform with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

21 Oct 2025 8 min read

Highly concurrent in-memory counter in GoLang cover photo
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Highly concurrent in-memory counter in GoLang

6 Oct 2025 11 min read

User foundation models for Grab cover photo
AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

User foundation models for Grab

26 Sep 2025 19 min read

Powering Partner Gateway metrics with Apache Pinot cover photo
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Powering Partner Gateway metrics with Apache Pinot

23 Sep 2025 13 min read

Taming the monorepo beast: Our journey to a leaner, faster GitLab repo cover photo
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Taming the monorepo beast: Our journey to a leaner, faster GitLab repo

16 Sep 2025 17 min read

Data mesh at Grab part I: Building trust through certification cover photo
Data Database Engineering

Data mesh at Grab part I: Building trust through certification

19 Aug 2025 8 min read

The evolution of Grab's machine learning feature store cover photo
Database AWS

The evolution of Grab's machine learning feature store

24 Jul 2025 11 min read

Grab's service mesh evolution: From Consul to Istio cover photo
Microservice Service Mesh Kubernetes

Grab's service mesh evolution: From Consul to Istio

16 Jul 2025 7 min read

DispatchGym: Grab’s reinforcement learning research framework cover photo
Dispatch Python

DispatchGym: Grab’s reinforcement learning research framework

7 Jul 2025 7 min read

Counter Service: How we rewrote it in Rust cover photo
Database Rust Data

Counter Service: How we rewrote it in Rust

20 Jun 2025 13 min read

The complete stream processing journey on FlinkSQL cover photo
Database FlinkSQL

The complete stream processing journey on FlinkSQL

12 Jun 2025 8 min read

Effortless enterprise authentication at Grab: Dex in action cover photo
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Effortless enterprise authentication at Grab: Dex in action

23 May 2025 9 min read

From failure to success: The birth of GrabGPT, Grab’s internal ChatGPT cover photo
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From failure to success: The birth of GrabGPT, Grab’s internal ChatGPT

19 May 2025 4 min read

Streamlining RiskOps with the SOP agent framework cover photo
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Streamlining RiskOps with the SOP agent framework

8 May 2025 5 min read

Introducing the SOP-driven LLM agent frameworks cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Introducing the SOP-driven LLM agent frameworks

25 Apr 2025 6 min read

Evaluating performance impact of removing Redis-cache from a Scylla-backed service cover photo
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Evaluating performance impact of removing Redis-cache from a Scylla-backed service

11 Apr 2025 16 min read

Facilitating Docs-as-Code implementation for users unfamiliar with Markdown cover photo
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Facilitating Docs-as-Code implementation for users unfamiliar with Markdown

4 Apr 2025 9 min read

Improving Hugo stability and addressing oncall challenges through automation cover photo
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Improving Hugo stability and addressing oncall challenges through automation

20 Mar 2025 8 min read

Building a Spark observability product with StarRocks: Real-time and historical performance analysis cover photo
Spark Observability StarRocks Data Engineering

Building a Spark observability product with StarRocks: Real-time and historical performance analysis

6 Mar 2025 25 min read

TechDocs at Grab: Cultivating a culture of quality documentation cover photo
Blog TechDocs Engineering

TechDocs at Grab: Cultivating a culture of quality documentation

27 Feb 2025 11 min read

Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to multiple GenAI providers cover photo
Engineering Data Science Optimization

Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to multiple GenAI providers

19 Feb 2025 10 min read

Embracing passwordless authentication with Grab’s Passkey cover photo
Engineering Security

Embracing passwordless authentication with Grab’s Passkey

26 Dec 2024 9 min read

Turbocharging GrabUnlimited with Temporal cover photo
Engineering Optimization Product

Turbocharging GrabUnlimited with Temporal

12 Dec 2024 16 min read

How we seamlessly migrated high volume real-time streaming traffic from one service to another with zero data loss and duplication cover photo
Engineering Optimization Data Streaming

How we seamlessly migrated high volume real-time streaming traffic from one service to another with zero data loss and duplication

5 Dec 2024 4 min read

Supercharging LLM application development with LLM-Kit cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Supercharging LLM application development with LLM-Kit

29 Nov 2024 7 min read

How we reduced initialisation time of Product Configuration Management SDK cover photo
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How we reduced initialisation time of Product Configuration Management SDK

22 Nov 2024 6 min read

Metasense V2: Enhancing, improving and productionisation of LLM powered data governance cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Metasense V2: Enhancing, improving and productionisation of LLM powered data governance

14 Nov 2024 6 min read

How we reduced peak memory and CPU usage of the product configuration management SDK cover photo
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How we reduced peak memory and CPU usage of the product configuration management SDK

30 Oct 2024 8 min read

LLM-assisted vector similarity search cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

LLM-assisted vector similarity search

23 Oct 2024 8 min read

Leveraging RAG-powered LLMs for analytical tasks cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Leveraging RAG-powered LLMs for analytical tasks

9 Oct 2024 7 min read

Evolution of Catwalk: Model serving platform at Grab cover photo
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Evolution of Catwalk: Model serving platform at Grab

1 Oct 2024 8 min read

Enabling conversational data discovery with LLMs at Grab cover photo
Data Discovery AI Artificial Intelligence

Enabling conversational data discovery with LLMs at Grab

26 Sep 2024 10 min read

Bringing Grab’s Live Activity to Android: Enhancing user experience through custom notifications cover photo
Engineering Android Exploration

Bringing Grab’s Live Activity to Android: Enhancing user experience through custom notifications

23 Sep 2024 9 min read

Unveiling the process: The creation of our powerful campaign builder cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Unveiling the process: The creation of our powerful campaign builder

10 Sep 2024 11 min read

Chimera Sandbox: A scalable experimentation and development platform for Notebook services cover photo
Engineering Generative AI LLM

Chimera Sandbox: A scalable experimentation and development platform for Notebook services

27 Aug 2024 8 min read

How we improved translation experience with cost efficiency cover photo
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How we improved translation experience with cost efficiency

5 Aug 2024 10 min read

LLM-powered data classification for data entities at scale cover photo
Data Machine Learning Generative AI

LLM-powered data classification for data entities at scale

15 Jul 2024 11 min read

Profile-guided optimisation (PGO) on Grab services cover photo
Go Optimization Experiment

Profile-guided optimisation (PGO) on Grab services

5 Jun 2024 7 min read

How we evaluated the business impact of marketing campaigns cover photo
Marketing Metrics Optimization

How we evaluated the business impact of marketing campaigns

23 May 2024 6 min read

No version left behind: Our epic journey of GitLab upgrades cover photo
Stability Automation Optimization

No version left behind: Our epic journey of GitLab upgrades

3 May 2024 11 min read

Ensuring data reliability and observability in risk systems cover photo
Data Science Security Risk

Ensuring data reliability and observability in risk systems

23 Apr 2024 6 min read

Grab Experiment Decision Engine - a Unified Toolkit for Experimentation cover photo
Data Science Experiment Statistics

Grab Experiment Decision Engine - a Unified Toolkit for Experimentation

9 Apr 2024 15 min read

Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making cover photo
Data Insights Metrics Decision Making

Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making

3 Apr 2024 19 min read

Android App Size at Scale with Project Bonsai cover photo
App Size Optimization Project Bonsai

Android App Size at Scale with Project Bonsai

1 Mar 2024 14 min read

Enabling near real-time data analytics on the data lake cover photo
Data Analytics Stream Processing Kafka

Enabling near real-time data analytics on the data lake

23 Feb 2024 8 min read

The journey of building a comprehensive attribution platform cover photo
Attribution Platform User Journeys Advertising

The journey of building a comprehensive attribution platform

20 Feb 2024 9 min read

Managing dynamic marketplace content at scale: Grab's approach to content moderation cover photo
Dynamic Marketplace Content Moderation Scalability

Managing dynamic marketplace content at scale: Grab's approach to content moderation

1 Feb 2024 3 min read

Rethinking Stream Processing: Data Exploration cover photo
Kafka Kubernetes Data Streaming

Rethinking Stream Processing: Data Exploration

31 Jan 2024 12 min read

Kafka on Kubernetes: Reloaded for fault tolerance cover photo
Kafka Kubernetes AWS

Kafka on Kubernetes: Reloaded for fault tolerance

26 Dec 2023 20 min read

Championing CyberSecurity: Grab's bug bounty programme in 2023 cover photo
Security Bug Bounty HackerOne

Championing CyberSecurity: Grab's bug bounty programme in 2023

19 Dec 2023 4 min read

Sliding window rate limits in distributed systems cover photo
Data Big Data Rate-Limiting

Sliding window rate limits in distributed systems

14 Dec 2023 11 min read

An elegant platform cover photo
Data Data Streaming Real-Time Streaming

An elegant platform

30 Nov 2023 16 min read

Road localisation in GrabMaps cover photo
Maps Data Big Data

Road localisation in GrabMaps

17 Nov 2023 13 min read

Graph modelling guidelines cover photo
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Graph modelling guidelines

8 Nov 2023 4 min read

Scaling marketing for merchants with targeted and intelligent promos cover photo
Data Advertising Scalability

Scaling marketing for merchants with targeted and intelligent promos

11 Oct 2023 7 min read

Stepping up marketing for advertisers: Scalable lookalike audience cover photo
Data Advertising Scalability

Stepping up marketing for advertisers: Scalable lookalike audience

22 Sep 2023 8 min read

Building hyperlocal GrabMaps cover photo
Maps Data Big Data

Building hyperlocal GrabMaps

30 Aug 2023 6 min read

Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency cover photo
Backend Performance

Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency

15 Aug 2023 8 min read

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection - Catching new fraudulent behaviours cover photo
Data Science Graph Networks Graphs

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection - Catching new fraudulent behaviours

2 Aug 2023 8 min read

Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers cover photo
Engineering Kafka Performance

Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers

7 Jul 2023 9 min read

Go module proxy at Grab cover photo
Engineering

Go module proxy at Grab

30 Jun 2023 14 min read

PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning cover photo
Engineering Privacy Data Masking

PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning

1 Jun 2023 9 min read

Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation cover photo
Engineering

Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation

23 May 2023 9 min read

How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools cover photo
iOS Mobile Engineering

How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools

18 May 2023 7 min read

2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine cover photo
Engineering Virtual Machines Faster

2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine

15 May 2023 5 min read

Safer deployment of streaming applications cover photo
Engineering Deployment Streaming Applications

Safer deployment of streaming applications

2 May 2023 9 min read

Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp cover photo
Engineering GrabChat Redesign

Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp

17 Apr 2023 5 min read

Evolution of quality at Grab cover photo
Engineering Technology Stack Exploration

Evolution of quality at Grab

31 Mar 2023 8 min read

How OVO determined the right technology stack for their web-based projects cover photo
Engineering Technology Stack Exploration

How OVO determined the right technology stack for their web-based projects

21 Mar 2023 7 min read

Migrating from Role to Attribute-based Access Control cover photo
Engineering Access Control Security

Migrating from Role to Attribute-based Access Control

9 Mar 2023 10 min read

Securing GitOps pipelines cover photo
Engineering Open Source Pipelines

Securing GitOps pipelines

1 Mar 2023 10 min read

New zoom freezing feature for Geohash plugin cover photo
Engineering Geohash Maps

New zoom freezing feature for Geohash plugin

21 Feb 2023 4 min read

Graph service platform cover photo
Engineering Graph Networks Graphs

Graph service platform

5 Jan 2023 7 min read

Zero trust with Kafka cover photo
Engineering Kafka Performance

Zero trust with Kafka

7 Dec 2022 9 min read

How KartaCam powers GrabMaps cover photo
Engineering GrabMaps KartaCam

How KartaCam powers GrabMaps

1 Dec 2022 8 min read

Graph for fraud detection cover photo
Analytics Data Science Security

Graph for fraud detection

24 Nov 2022 9 min read

Query expansion based on user behaviour cover photo
Analytics Data Science

Query expansion based on user behaviour

16 Nov 2022 6 min read

Using mobile sensor data to encourage safer driving cover photo
Analytics Driving Patterns Data Science

Using mobile sensor data to encourage safer driving

25 Oct 2022 12 min read

Automatic rule backtesting with large quantities of data cover photo
Testing Automation Backtesting

Automatic rule backtesting with large quantities of data

8 Sep 2022 6 min read

How we store and process millions of orders daily cover photo
Database Storage Distributed Systems

How we store and process millions of orders daily

15 Aug 2022 9 min read

How we automated FAQ responses at Grab cover photo
Automation Knowledge Management Productivity

How we automated FAQ responses at Grab

13 Jul 2022 8 min read

Graph Networks - 10X investigation with Graph Visualisations cover photo
Security Graphs Concepts Graph Technology

Graph Networks - 10X investigation with Graph Visualisations

30 Jun 2022 5 min read

How facial recognition technology keeps you safe cover photo
Security Facial Recognition

How facial recognition technology keeps you safe

9 Jun 2022 12 min read

Graph concepts and applications cover photo
Security Graphs Concepts Graph Technology

Graph concepts and applications

2 Jun 2022 15 min read

Automated Experiment Analysis - Making experimental analysis scalable cover photo
Experiment Experimental Analysis Azure Databricks

Automated Experiment Analysis - Making experimental analysis scalable

30 May 2022 7 min read

Search architecture revamp cover photo
Architecture Optimization Search

Search architecture revamp

17 May 2022 5 min read

Embracing a Docs-as-Code approach cover photo
Docs-as-Code Documentation TechDocs

Embracing a Docs-as-Code approach

4 May 2022 4 min read

Graph Networks - Striking fraud syndicates in the dark cover photo
Graph Networks Graphs Fraud Detection

Graph Networks - Striking fraud syndicates in the dark

28 Apr 2022 4 min read

How we reduced our CI YAML files from 1800 lines to 50 lines cover photo
CI Machine Learning Pipelines

How we reduced our CI YAML files from 1800 lines to 50 lines

19 Apr 2022 8 min read

How Kafka Connect helps move data seamlessly cover photo
Kafka Data Processing Real-Time

How Kafka Connect helps move data seamlessly

6 Apr 2022 8 min read

Supporting large campaigns at scale cover photo
Kafka Scheduling Stream Processing

Supporting large campaigns at scale

1 Apr 2022 7 min read

How telematics helps Grab to improve safety cover photo
Engineering Data Science Driving Patterns

How telematics helps Grab to improve safety

24 Mar 2022 5 min read

Real-time data ingestion in Grab cover photo
Engineering Data Ingestion

Real-time data ingestion in Grab

14 Mar 2022 10 min read

Abacus - Issuing points for multiple sources cover photo
Engineering Event Processing Optimization

Abacus - Issuing points for multiple sources

1 Mar 2022 10 min read

Exposing a Kafka Cluster via a VPC Endpoint Service cover photo
Engineering Cloud Kafka

Exposing a Kafka Cluster via a VPC Endpoint Service

18 Feb 2022 8 min read

How Grab built a scalable, high-performance ad server cover photo
Engineering Ads Design

How Grab built a scalable, high-performance ad server

11 Feb 2022 7 min read

Biometric authentication - Why do we need it? cover photo
Engineering Security

Biometric authentication - Why do we need it?

20 Jan 2022 6 min read

Using real-world patterns to improve matching in theory and practice cover photo
Data Science Research

Using real-world patterns to improve matching in theory and practice

22 Nov 2021 12 min read

Designing products and services based on Jobs to be Done cover photo
Design Product Database

Designing products and services based on Jobs to be Done

21 Oct 2021 7 min read

Search indexing optimisation cover photo
Engineering Data Database

Search indexing optimisation

27 Sep 2021 11 min read

Automating Multi-Armed Bandit testing during feature rollout cover photo
Engineering Testing Optimization

Automating Multi-Armed Bandit testing during feature rollout

1 Sep 2021 6 min read

How We Cut GrabFood.com’s Page JavaScript Asset Sizes by 3x cover photo
Product Asset Size Cloud

How We Cut GrabFood.com’s Page JavaScript Asset Sizes by 3x

29 Jul 2021 15 min read

Protecting Personal Data in Grab's Imagery cover photo
Engineering Machine Learning Data

Protecting Personal Data in Grab's Imagery

26 Jul 2021 15 min read

Processing ETL tasks with Ratchet cover photo
Pipelines Data ETL

Processing ETL tasks with Ratchet

19 Jul 2021 9 min read

App Modularisation at Scale cover photo
App Build Time Engineering

App Modularisation at Scale

13 Jul 2021 5 min read

Reshaping Chat Support for Our Users cover photo
Product Design Chat Support

Reshaping Chat Support for Our Users

7 Jul 2021 9 min read

Debugging High Latency Due to Context Leaks cover photo
Engineering Latency Debugging

Debugging High Latency Due to Context Leaks

30 Jun 2021 8 min read

Building a Hyper Self-Service, Distributed Tracing and Feedback System for Rule & Machine Learning (ML) Predictions cover photo
Engineering Machine Learning Statistics

Building a Hyper Self-Service, Distributed Tracing and Feedback System for Rule & Machine Learning (ML) Predictions

24 May 2021 9 min read

Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 2) cover photo
Deployment CI Continuous Integration

Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 2)

10 May 2021 9 min read

How We Improved Agent Chat Efficiency with Machine Learning cover photo
Engineering Machine Learning Consumer Support

How We Improved Agent Chat Efficiency with Machine Learning

19 Apr 2021 11 min read

How Grab Leveraged Performance Marketing Automation to Improve Conversion Rates by 30% cover photo
Automation Engineering Marketing

How Grab Leveraged Performance Marketing Automation to Improve Conversion Rates by 30%

22 Mar 2021 5 min read

One Small Step Closer to Containerising Service Binaries cover photo
Backend Engineering Golang

One Small Step Closer to Containerising Service Binaries

23 Feb 2021 7 min read

Customer Support Workforce Routing cover photo
Workforce Routing Chat Product

Customer Support Workforce Routing

5 Feb 2021 11 min read

Serving Driver-partners Data at Scale Using Mirror Cache cover photo
Mirror Cache Data at Scale

Serving Driver-partners Data at Scale Using Mirror Cache

26 Jan 2021 9 min read

The GrabMart Journey cover photo
GrabMart Product

The GrabMart Journey

18 Jan 2021 5 min read

Trident - Real-time Event Processing at Scale cover photo
A/B Testing Event Processing

Trident - Real-time Event Processing at Scale

13 Jan 2021 15 min read

Pharos - Searching Nearby Drivers on Road Network at Scale cover photo
Real-Time K Nearest Neighbor Search Spatial Data Store Distributed Systems

Pharos - Searching Nearby Drivers on Road Network at Scale

22 Dec 2020 15 min read

Reflecting on the Five Years of Bug Bounty at Grab cover photo
Security HackerOne Bug Bounty

Reflecting on the Five Years of Bug Bounty at Grab

16 Dec 2020 6 min read

How Grab is Blazing Through the Superapp Bazel Migration cover photo
Bazel Android iOS

How Grab is Blazing Through the Superapp Bazel Migration

3 Dec 2020 15 min read

Democratising Fare Storage at Scale Using Event Sourcing cover photo
Pricing Event Sourcing Fare Storage

Democratising Fare Storage at Scale Using Event Sourcing

23 Nov 2020 10 min read

Keeping 170 Libraries Up to Date on a Large Scale Android App cover photo
Mobile Android Engineering

Keeping 170 Libraries Up to Date on a Large Scale Android App

30 Oct 2020 6 min read

Optimally Scaling Kafka Consumer Applications cover photo
Event Sourcing Stream Processing Kubernetes

Optimally Scaling Kafka Consumer Applications

13 Oct 2020 6 min read

Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 1) cover photo
Deployment CI Continuous Integration

Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 1)

23 Sep 2020 16 min read

Uncovering the Truth Behind Lua and Redis Data Consistency cover photo
Redis Lua Scripts High CPU Usage

Uncovering the Truth Behind Lua and Redis Data Consistency

7 Sep 2020 7 min read

Securing and Managing Multi-cloud Presto Clusters with Grab’s DataGateway cover photo
Engineering Presto Data

Securing and Managing Multi-cloud Presto Clusters with Grab’s DataGateway

24 Aug 2020 10 min read

Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 2) cover photo
Go Monorepo Vendoring

Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 2)

12 Aug 2020 5 min read

The Journey of Deploying Apache Airflow at Grab cover photo
Engineering Data Pipeline Scheduling

The Journey of Deploying Apache Airflow at Grab

14 Jul 2020 11 min read

How We Built Our In-house Chat Platform for the Web cover photo
Chat Web Customer Support

How We Built Our In-house Chat Platform for the Web

29 Jun 2020 13 min read

Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 1) cover photo
Go Monorepo Vendoring

Go Modules- A Guide for monorepos (Part 1)

29 May 2020 7 min read

Does Southeast Asia Run on Coffee? cover photo
Data Data Analytics Data Visualization

Does Southeast Asia Run on Coffee?

26 Mar 2020 5 min read

GrabChat Much? Talk Data to Me! cover photo
Data Data Analytics Data Visualization

GrabChat Much? Talk Data to Me!

24 Mar 2020 7 min read

7 Fun Facts about Grab’s Driver-Partners in Singapore cover photo
Data Data Analytics

7 Fun Facts about Grab’s Driver-Partners in Singapore

20 Mar 2020 4 min read

Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing cover photo
Xcode Testing Mobile

Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing

16 Mar 2020 11 min read

Returning 575 Terabytes of Storage Space to Our Users cover photo
Mobile Android Performance

Returning 575 Terabytes of Storage Space to Our Users

25 Feb 2020 5 min read

Grab-Posisi - Southeast Asia’s First Comprehensive GPS Trajectory Dataset cover photo
GPS Datasets Maps

Grab-Posisi - Southeast Asia’s First Comprehensive GPS Trajectory Dataset

20 Feb 2020 7 min read

How We Prevented App Performance Degradation from Sudden Ride Demand Spikes cover photo
Resiliency Circuit Breakers

How We Prevented App Performance Degradation from Sudden Ride Demand Spikes

8 Jan 2020 5 min read

Plumbing At Scale cover photo
Event Sourcing Stream Processing Kubernetes

Plumbing At Scale

6 Jan 2020 11 min read

Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts cover photo
Superapp Mobile Performance

Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts

26 Dec 2019 12 min read

Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation cover photo
Backend Testing Microservice

Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation

23 Dec 2019 9 min read

How We Implemented Domain-Driven Development in Golang cover photo
Backend Go

How We Implemented Domain-Driven Development in Golang

21 Nov 2019 9 min read

Driving Southeast Asia Forward Through People-Focused Design cover photo
Design User Research

Driving Southeast Asia Forward Through People-Focused Design

5 Nov 2019 14 min read

Griffin, an Anti-fraud Risk Rule Engine Making Billions of Predictions Daily cover photo
Engineering Anti-Fraud Security

Griffin, an Anti-fraud Risk Rule Engine Making Billions of Predictions Daily

28 Oct 2019 13 min read

Using Grab’s Trust Counter Service to Detect Fraud Successfully cover photo
Engineering Anti-Fraud Security

Using Grab’s Trust Counter Service to Detect Fraud Successfully

21 Oct 2019 10 min read

Being a Principal Engineer at Grab cover photo
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Being a Principal Engineer at Grab

25 Sep 2019 7 min read

Data First, SLA Always cover photo
Data Pipeline

Data First, SLA Always

1 Aug 2019 11 min read

Save Your Place with Grab! cover photo
Maps Data

Save Your Place with Grab!

1 Aug 2019 5 min read

No More Forgetting to Input ERP Charges - Hello Automated ERP! cover photo
Data Maps Tech

No More Forgetting to Input ERP Charges - Hello Automated ERP!

31 Jul 2019 6 min read

How We Built a Logging Stack at Grab cover photo
Logging

How We Built a Logging Stack at Grab

31 Jul 2019 11 min read

Making Grab’s Everyday App Super cover photo
Superapp Feed Recommendations

Making Grab’s Everyday App Super

3 Jul 2019 7 min read

Catwalk: Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale cover photo
Machine Learning Models Data Science

Catwalk: Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale

2 Jul 2019 12 min read

React Native in GrabPay cover photo
Grab Mobile GrabPay

React Native in GrabPay

30 May 2019 7 min read

Connecting the Invisibles to Design Seamless Experiences cover photo
Design Service Design

Connecting the Invisibles to Design Seamless Experiences

28 May 2019 4 min read

Tourists on GrabChat! cover photo
Data Analytics Data Analytics

Tourists on GrabChat!

22 May 2019 7 min read

Bubble Tea Craze on GrabFood! cover photo
Data Analytics Data Analytics

Bubble Tea Craze on GrabFood!

9 May 2019 4 min read

Why You Should Organise an Immersion Trip for Your Next Project cover photo
Hyperlocal Immersion

Why You Should Organise an Immersion Trip for Your Next Project

7 May 2019 9 min read

Preventing Pipeline Calls from Crashing Redis Clusters cover photo
Grab Backend Redis

Preventing Pipeline Calls from Crashing Redis Clusters

5 May 2019 9 min read

Guiding You Door-to-Door via Our Superapp! cover photo
Grab Data Tech

Guiding You Door-to-Door via Our Superapp!

12 Apr 2019 5 min read

Loki, a Dynamic Mock Server for HTTP/TCP Testing cover photo
Backend Service Mobile

Loki, a Dynamic Mock Server for HTTP/TCP Testing

10 Apr 2019 10 min read

How We Harnessed the Wisdom of Crowds to Improve Restaurant Location Accuracy cover photo
Data Science

How We Harnessed the Wisdom of Crowds to Improve Restaurant Location Accuracy

2 Apr 2019 8 min read

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 3): Architecture Patterns and Chaos Engineering cover photo
Resiliency Microservice Chaos Engineering

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 3): Architecture Patterns and Chaos Engineering

27 Mar 2019 6 min read

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 2): Bulkheading, Load Balancing, and Fallbacks cover photo
Resiliency Microservice Bulkheading

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 2): Bulkheading, Load Balancing, and Fallbacks

25 Mar 2019 8 min read

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 1): Rate-Limiting cover photo
Resiliency Microservice Rate-Limiting

Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 1): Rate-Limiting

20 Mar 2019 7 min read

Context Deadlines and How to Set Them cover photo
Resiliency Microservice

Context Deadlines and How to Set Them

11 Mar 2019 19 min read

Recipe for Building a Widget: How We Helped to “Peak-Shift” Demand by Helping Passengers Understand Travel Trends cover photo
Analytics Data Data Analytics

Recipe for Building a Widget: How We Helped to “Peak-Shift” Demand by Helping Passengers Understand Travel Trends

7 Mar 2019 12 min read

Structured Logging: The Best Friend You’ll Want When Things Go Wrong cover photo
Logging

Structured Logging: The Best Friend You’ll Want When Things Go Wrong

5 Mar 2019 13 min read

How We Simplified Our Data Ingestion & Transformation Process cover photo
Big Data Data Pipeline

How We Simplified Our Data Ingestion & Transformation Process

3 Mar 2019 9 min read

Understanding Supply & Demand in Ride-hailing Through the Lens of Data cover photo
Analytics Data Data Analytics

Understanding Supply & Demand in Ride-hailing Through the Lens of Data

20 Feb 2019 7 min read

A Lean and Scalable Data Pipeline to Capture Large Scale Events and Support Experimentation Platform cover photo
Big Data Data Pipeline Experiment

A Lean and Scalable Data Pipeline to Capture Large Scale Events and Support Experimentation Platform

16 Jan 2019 15 min read

Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2) cover photo
Resiliency Circuit Breakers

Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2)

8 Jan 2019 14 min read

Querying Big Data in Real-time with Presto & Grab's TalariaDB cover photo
Big Data Real-Time Database

Querying Big Data in Real-time with Presto & Grab's TalariaDB

2 Jan 2019 10 min read

Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1) cover photo
Resiliency Circuit Breakers

Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1)

21 Dec 2018 17 min read

Orchestrating Chaos Using Grab's Experimentation Platform cover photo
Chaos Engineering Resiliency Microservice

Orchestrating Chaos Using Grab's Experimentation Platform

23 Nov 2018 7 min read

Reliable and Scalable Feature Toggles and A/B Testing SDK at Grab cover photo
Experiment Backend Frontend

Reliable and Scalable Feature Toggles and A/B Testing SDK at Grab

2 Nov 2018 12 min read

Mockers - Overcoming Testing Challenges at Grab cover photo
Backend Service Testing

Mockers - Overcoming Testing Challenges at Grab

18 Sep 2018 9 min read

Journey of a Tourist via Grab cover photo
Analytics Data Data Analytics

Journey of a Tourist via Grab

11 Sep 2018 6 min read

How We Designed the Quotas Microservice to Prevent Resource Abuse cover photo
Quota Backend Service

How We Designed the Quotas Microservice to Prevent Resource Abuse

10 Aug 2018 11 min read

Grab Senior Data Scientist Liuqin Yang Wins Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize cover photo
Data Science BOH

Grab Senior Data Scientist Liuqin Yang Wins Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize

20 Jul 2018 4 min read

Building Grab’s Experimentation Platform cover photo
Experiment Backend Frontend

Building Grab’s Experimentation Platform

13 Jul 2018 8 min read

Introducing Grab-Kit: Distributed Service Design at Grab cover photo
Backend Engineering Golang

Introducing Grab-Kit: Distributed Service Design at Grab

8 Jun 2018 6 min read

How Grab Experimented with Chat to Drive Down Booking Cancellations cover photo
Chat Booking Experiment

How Grab Experimented with Chat to Drive Down Booking Cancellations

1 Mar 2018 5 min read

Deep Dive into Database Timeouts in Rails cover photo
Backend Database Distributed Systems

Deep Dive into Database Timeouts in Rails

29 Jan 2018 14 min read

Dealing with the Meltdown Patch at Grab cover photo
AWS Meltdown

Dealing with the Meltdown Patch at Grab

7 Jan 2018 6 min read

GrabShare at the Intelligent Transportation Engineering Conference cover photo
Data Science GrabShare

GrabShare at the Intelligent Transportation Engineering Conference

13 Dec 2017 3 min read

Grabbing Growth: A Growth Hacking Story cover photo
Growth Hacking

Grabbing Growth: A Growth Hacking Story

8 Dec 2017 5 min read

The Data and Science Behind GrabShare Part I: Verifying Potential and Developing the Algorithm cover photo
Data Science GrabShare

The Data and Science Behind GrabShare Part I: Verifying Potential and Developing the Algorithm

20 Oct 2017 10 min read

The Art of Hiring Good Engineers cover photo
Hiring

The Art of Hiring Good Engineers

4 Oct 2017 8 min read

Migrating Existing Datastores cover photo
Backend Redis

Migrating Existing Datastores

8 Aug 2017 7 min read

So You Need to Hire Good Engineers cover photo
Hiring

So You Need to Hire Good Engineers

24 Jul 2017 6 min read

Come and #hackallthethings at Grab cover photo
Security

Come and #hackallthethings at Grab

11 Jul 2017 2 min read

Backend Redis

How We Scaled Our Cache and Got a Good Night's Sleep

19 Jun 2017 5 min read

Grab's Front End Study Guide cover photo
Frontend JavaScript Web

Grab's Front End Study Guide

3 Jun 2017 26 min read

Golang Networking

DNS Resolution in Go and Cgo

24 May 2017 13 min read

Driving Southeast Asia Forward with AWS cover photo
AWS

Driving Southeast Asia Forward with AWS

21 May 2017 7 min read

Data Science Product Management

How to Go from a Quick Idea to an Essential Feature in Four Steps

16 May 2017 7 min read

AWS Networking

Troubleshooting Unusual AWS ELB 5XX Error

10 May 2017 17 min read

Scaling Like a Boss with Presto cover photo
Analytics AWS Data

Scaling Like a Boss with Presto

1 May 2017 11 min read

Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Continuous Delivery cover photo
Continuous Delivery iOS Mobile

Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Continuous Delivery

23 Apr 2017 5 min read

Continuous Integration iOS Mobile

Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Integration Testing

18 Apr 2017 6 min read

Backend Redis

A Key Expired in Redis, You Won't Believe What Happened Next

27 Mar 2017 7 min read

How Grab Hires Engineers in Singapore cover photo
Hiring

How Grab Hires Engineers in Singapore

16 Feb 2017 7 min read

Battling with Tech Giants for the World's Best Talent cover photo
Hiring

Battling with Tech Giants for the World's Best Talent

18 Jan 2017 3 min read

This Rocket Ain't Stopping - Achieving Zero Downtime for Rails to Golang API Migration cover photo
AWS Golang Ruby

This Rocket Ain't Stopping - Achieving Zero Downtime for Rails to Golang API Migration

18 Oct 2016 7 min read

Grab Vietnam Careers Week cover photo
Hiring

Grab Vietnam Careers Week

14 Oct 2016 5 min read

User Trust

GrabPay Wins Best Fraud Prevention Innovation at the Florin Awards

12 Oct 2016 2 min read

Backend Data Distributed Systems

Round-robin in Distributed Systems

27 Sep 2016 5 min read

User Research UX

Why Test the Design with Only 5 Users

26 Aug 2016 5 min read

API UX

Programmers Beware - UX is Not Just for Designers

5 Jul 2016 10 min read

Post Mortem

Grab You Some Post-Mortem Reports

4 Feb 2016 5 min read

AWS

The Curious Case of the Phantom Instance

28 Dec 2015 7 min read

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