Data Database Engineering Data Mesh at Grab (Part III): Operationalizing data reliability with automated DPIs 28 Aug 2026 12 min read
Artificial Intelligence Engineering Product Building Jarvis Pro: Route first, answer later 21 Aug 2026 6 min read
Artificial Intelligence Engineering Product Grab Bench: Evaluating AI on Grab-shaped production work 12 Aug 2026 9 min read
Engineering Data Search Crowdsourced taxonomy verification: A feedback-driven framework for refining knowledge graph relationships via online search interactions 30 Jul 2026 10 min read
Engineering Generative AI LLM Agent platform (Part 1): How we help Grab build and run AI agents at scale 24 Jul 2026 12 min read
Data Database Engineering Scaling Grab's Data Lake: Our journey to Apache Iceberg adoption 10 Jul 2026 7 min read
Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Migrating Counter Service storage: Design choices and learnings 3 Jul 2026 13 min read
Security Containers Artificial Intelligence Scaling out Distroless adoption With AI 22 Jun 2026 11 min read
Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Palana (Part 2): Architecting isolation, identity, and auditability for AI agents 21 Jun 2026 8 min read
Security Artificial Intelligence Kubernetes Palana (Part 1): Why Grab built a secure platform for autonomous AI Agents 19 Jun 2026 7 min read
Blog TechDocs Engineering From decentralized Docs-as-Code to a centralized repository: Evolving Grab's documentation strategy 29 May 2026 7 min read
Database Hugo FlinkSQL The Hugo evolution: Engineering Grab's unified, one-click data ingestion platform with Apache Flink 22 May 2026 7 min read
Engineering Android Performance Scaling developer experience: How we improved Android Studio in a large monorepo 15 May 2026 15 min read
Data Database Engineering Data Mesh at Grab (Part II): The foundational tools behind certification 30 Apr 2026 16 min read
AI Artificial Intelligence Analytics From firefighting to building: How AI agents restored our team’s core productivity 19 Mar 2026 18 min read
AI Artificial Intelligence Enabling R8 optimization at scale with AI-assisted debugging 12 Mar 2026 15 min read
App Disk Disk Size Optimization Reclaiming Terabytes: Optimizing Android image caching with TLRU 6 Mar 2026 14 min read
AI Artificial Intelligence LLM From deployment slop to production reality: How BriX bridges the gap with enterprise-grade AI infrastructure 16 Jan 2026 19 min read
Mobile iOS Android Demystifying user journeys: Revolutionizing troubleshooting with auto tracking 23 Dec 2025 9 min read
Database FlinkSQL How Grab is accelerating growth with real-time personalization using Customer Data Platform scenarios 18 Dec 2025 7 min read
Engineering Performance A Decade of Defense: Celebrating Grab's 10th Year Bug Bounty Program 1 Dec 2025 6 min read
Engineering Kafka Performance Real-time data quality monitoring: Kafka stream contracts with syntactic and semantic test 26 Nov 2025 8 min read
Engineering Performance SpellVault’s evolution: Beyond LLM apps, towards the agentic future 21 Nov 2025 11 min read
Engineering Performance How we built a custom vision LLM to improve document processing at Grab 4 Nov 2025 10 min read
Engineering Performance Data Science Machine-learning predictive autoscaling for Flink 30 Oct 2025 13 min read
Engineering Performance Data Science Modernising Grab’s model serving platform with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server 21 Oct 2025 8 min read
Engineering Monorepo Go Taming the monorepo beast: Our journey to a leaner, faster GitLab repo 16 Sep 2025 17 min read
Data Database Engineering Data mesh at Grab part I: Building trust through certification 19 Aug 2025 8 min read
Microservice Service Mesh Kubernetes Grab's service mesh evolution: From Consul to Istio 16 Jul 2025 7 min read
Access Control Engineering Security Effortless enterprise authentication at Grab: Dex in action 23 May 2025 9 min read
Engineering Optimization AI From failure to success: The birth of GrabGPT, Grab’s internal ChatGPT 19 May 2025 4 min read
Engineering Generative AI LLM Streamlining RiskOps with the SOP agent framework 8 May 2025 5 min read
Database Engineering Event Processing Evaluating performance impact of removing Redis-cache from a Scylla-backed service 11 Apr 2025 16 min read
Blog TechDocs Engineering Facilitating Docs-as-Code implementation for users unfamiliar with Markdown 4 Apr 2025 9 min read
Data Pipeline Data Reliability Data Observability Improving Hugo stability and addressing oncall challenges through automation 20 Mar 2025 8 min read
Spark Observability StarRocks Data Engineering Building a Spark observability product with StarRocks: Real-time and historical performance analysis 6 Mar 2025 25 min read
Blog TechDocs Engineering TechDocs at Grab: Cultivating a culture of quality documentation 27 Feb 2025 11 min read
Engineering Data Science Optimization Grab AI Gateway: Connecting Grabbers to multiple GenAI providers 19 Feb 2025 10 min read
Engineering Security Embracing passwordless authentication with Grab’s Passkey 26 Dec 2024 9 min read
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
Engineering Generative AI LLM Supercharging LLM application development with LLM-Kit 29 Nov 2024 7 min read
Engineering Optimization Service How we reduced initialisation time of Product Configuration Management SDK 22 Nov 2024 6 min read
Engineering Generative AI LLM Metasense V2: Enhancing, improving and productionisation of LLM powered data governance 14 Nov 2024 6 min read
Engineering Optimization Service How we reduced peak memory and CPU usage of the product configuration management SDK 30 Oct 2024 8 min read
Machine Learning Models Data Science Evolution of Catwalk: Model serving platform at Grab 1 Oct 2024 8 min read
Data Discovery AI Artificial Intelligence Enabling conversational data discovery with LLMs at Grab 26 Sep 2024 10 min read
Engineering Android Exploration Bringing Grab’s Live Activity to Android: Enhancing user experience through custom notifications 23 Sep 2024 9 min read
Engineering Generative AI LLM Unveiling the process: The creation of our powerful campaign builder 10 Sep 2024 11 min read
Engineering Generative AI LLM Chimera Sandbox: A scalable experimentation and development platform for Notebook services 27 Aug 2024 8 min read
Chat Chat Support Engineering How we improved translation experience with cost efficiency 5 Aug 2024 10 min read
Data Machine Learning Generative AI LLM-powered data classification for data entities at scale 15 Jul 2024 11 min read
Marketing Metrics Optimization How we evaluated the business impact of marketing campaigns 23 May 2024 6 min read
Stability Automation Optimization No version left behind: Our epic journey of GitLab upgrades 3 May 2024 11 min read
Data Science Security Risk Ensuring data reliability and observability in risk systems 23 Apr 2024 6 min read
Data Science Experiment Statistics Grab Experiment Decision Engine - a Unified Toolkit for Experimentation 9 Apr 2024 15 min read
Data Insights Metrics Decision Making Iris - Turning observations into actionable insights for enhanced decision making 3 Apr 2024 19 min read
App Size Optimization Project Bonsai Android App Size at Scale with Project Bonsai 1 Mar 2024 14 min read
Data Analytics Stream Processing Kafka Enabling near real-time data analytics on the data lake 23 Feb 2024 8 min read
Attribution Platform User Journeys Advertising The journey of building a comprehensive attribution platform 20 Feb 2024 9 min read
Kafka Kubernetes Data Streaming Rethinking Stream Processing: Data Exploration 31 Jan 2024 12 min read
Security Bug Bounty HackerOne Championing CyberSecurity: Grab's bug bounty programme in 2023 19 Dec 2023 4 min read
Data Big Data Rate-Limiting Sliding window rate limits in distributed systems 14 Dec 2023 11 min read
Data Advertising Scalability Scaling marketing for merchants with targeted and intelligent promos 11 Oct 2023 7 min read
Data Advertising Scalability Stepping up marketing for advertisers: Scalable lookalike audience 22 Sep 2023 8 min read
Backend Performance Streamlining Grab's Segmentation Platform with faster creation and lower latency 15 Aug 2023 8 min read
Engineering Privacy Data Masking PII masking for privacy-grade machine learning 1 Jun 2023 9 min read
Engineering Performance bottlenecks of Go application on Kubernetes with non-integer (floating) CPU allocation 23 May 2023 9 min read
iOS Mobile Engineering How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools 18 May 2023 7 min read
Engineering Virtual Machines Faster 2.3x faster using the Go plugin to replace Lua virtual machine 15 May 2023 5 min read
Engineering Deployment Streaming Applications Safer deployment of streaming applications 2 May 2023 9 min read
Engineering GrabChat Redesign Message Center - Redesigning the messaging experience on the Grab superapp 17 Apr 2023 5 min read
Engineering Technology Stack Exploration How OVO determined the right technology stack for their web-based projects 21 Mar 2023 7 min read
Engineering Access Control Security Migrating from Role to Attribute-based Access Control 9 Mar 2023 10 min read
Analytics Driving Patterns Data Science Using mobile sensor data to encourage safer driving 25 Oct 2022 12 min read
Testing Automation Backtesting Automatic rule backtesting with large quantities of data 8 Sep 2022 6 min read
Database Storage Distributed Systems How we store and process millions of orders daily 15 Aug 2022 9 min read
Automation Knowledge Management Productivity How we automated FAQ responses at Grab 13 Jul 2022 8 min read
Security Graphs Concepts Graph Technology Graph Networks - 10X investigation with Graph Visualisations 30 Jun 2022 5 min read
Experiment Experimental Analysis Azure Databricks Automated Experiment Analysis - Making experimental analysis scalable 30 May 2022 7 min read
Graph Networks Graphs Fraud Detection Graph Networks - Striking fraud syndicates in the dark 28 Apr 2022 4 min read
CI Machine Learning Pipelines How we reduced our CI YAML files from 1800 lines to 50 lines 19 Apr 2022 8 min read
Engineering Data Science Driving Patterns How telematics helps Grab to improve safety 24 Mar 2022 5 min read
Engineering Event Processing Optimization Abacus - Issuing points for multiple sources 1 Mar 2022 10 min read
Engineering Testing Optimization Automating Multi-Armed Bandit testing during feature rollout 1 Sep 2021 6 min read
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
Deployment CI Continuous Integration Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 2) 10 May 2021 9 min read
Engineering Machine Learning Consumer Support How We Improved Agent Chat Efficiency with Machine Learning 19 Apr 2021 11 min read
Automation Engineering Marketing How Grab Leveraged Performance Marketing Automation to Improve Conversion Rates by 30% 22 Mar 2021 5 min read
Backend Engineering Golang One Small Step Closer to Containerising Service Binaries 23 Feb 2021 7 min read
Mirror Cache Data at Scale Serving Driver-partners Data at Scale Using Mirror Cache 26 Jan 2021 9 min read
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
Pricing Event Sourcing Fare Storage Democratising Fare Storage at Scale Using Event Sourcing 23 Nov 2020 10 min read
Mobile Android Engineering Keeping 170 Libraries Up to Date on a Large Scale Android App 30 Oct 2020 6 min read
Event Sourcing Stream Processing Kubernetes Optimally Scaling Kafka Consumer Applications 13 Oct 2020 6 min read
Deployment CI Continuous Integration Our Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 1) 23 Sep 2020 16 min read
Redis Lua Scripts High CPU Usage Uncovering the Truth Behind Lua and Redis Data Consistency 7 Sep 2020 7 min read
Engineering Presto Data Securing and Managing Multi-cloud Presto Clusters with Grab’s DataGateway 24 Aug 2020 10 min read
Engineering Data Pipeline Scheduling The Journey of Deploying Apache Airflow at Grab 14 Jul 2020 11 min read
Chat Web Customer Support How We Built Our In-house Chat Platform for the Web 29 Jun 2020 13 min read
Xcode Testing Mobile Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing 16 Mar 2020 11 min read
Mobile Android Performance Returning 575 Terabytes of Storage Space to Our Users 25 Feb 2020 5 min read
GPS Datasets Maps Grab-Posisi - Southeast Asia’s First Comprehensive GPS Trajectory Dataset 20 Feb 2020 7 min read
Resiliency Circuit Breakers How We Prevented App Performance Degradation from Sudden Ride Demand Spikes 8 Jan 2020 5 min read
Superapp Mobile Performance Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts 26 Dec 2019 12 min read
Backend Testing Microservice Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation 23 Dec 2019 9 min read
Engineering Anti-Fraud Security Griffin, an Anti-fraud Risk Rule Engine Making Billions of Predictions Daily 28 Oct 2019 13 min read
Engineering Anti-Fraud Security Using Grab’s Trust Counter Service to Detect Fraud Successfully 21 Oct 2019 10 min read
Machine Learning Models Data Science Catwalk: Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale 2 Jul 2019 12 min read
Resiliency Microservice Chaos Engineering Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 3): Architecture Patterns and Chaos Engineering 27 Mar 2019 6 min read
Resiliency Microservice Bulkheading Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 2): Bulkheading, Load Balancing, and Fallbacks 25 Mar 2019 8 min read
Resiliency Microservice Rate-Limiting Designing Resilient Systems Beyond Retries (Part 1): Rate-Limiting 20 Mar 2019 7 min read
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
Big Data Data Pipeline How We Simplified Our Data Ingestion & Transformation Process 3 Mar 2019 9 min read
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
Resiliency Circuit Breakers Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 2) 8 Jan 2019 14 min read
Big Data Real-Time Database Querying Big Data in Real-time with Presto & Grab's TalariaDB 2 Jan 2019 10 min read
Resiliency Circuit Breakers Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? (Part 1) 21 Dec 2018 17 min read
Chaos Engineering Resiliency Microservice Orchestrating Chaos Using Grab's Experimentation Platform 23 Nov 2018 7 min read
Experiment Backend Frontend Reliable and Scalable Feature Toggles and A/B Testing SDK at Grab 2 Nov 2018 12 min read
Quota Backend Service How We Designed the Quotas Microservice to Prevent Resource Abuse 10 Aug 2018 11 min read
Backend Engineering Golang Introducing Grab-Kit: Distributed Service Design at Grab 8 Jun 2018 6 min read
Backend Database Distributed Systems Deep Dive into Database Timeouts in Rails 29 Jan 2018 14 min read
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
AWS Golang Ruby This Rocket Ain't Stopping - Achieving Zero Downtime for Rails to Golang API Migration 18 Oct 2016 7 min read