Tech

Fantastic drivers and how to find them

How we built an algorithm that could identify and differentiate clusters as intuitively as the human eye

Tech

The story of a team focused on eventually automating everything for GO-JEK

Lessons in untying dependencies and letting machines do the work

Tech

How we define speed, execution and scale

A story of how we replaced a high load backend service with zero downtime in two days.

Tech

A short study in fixing Jakarta’s Traffic

An Analytical Approach to Advancing Public Transportation

Culture

People build products, not processes

This post talks about the different aspects that are often overlooked while dealing with people using Agile/XP methodologies for product development.

Tech

Olympus: Terraforming repeatable and extensible infrastructure at GO-JEK

By Ravi Suhag From where we started, GO-JEK has grown to be a community of more than one million drivers with 3 Million+ orders every day in almost no time. To keep supporting this growth, hundreds of microservices run and communicate across multiple data centers to serve the best experience

Design

Are you a UX writer?

If nobody knows what you do, you’re on the right path.

Data

DAGGERS: Data aggregation in real time

How we deploy jobs in production within few minutes and aggregate data in real time, without any developer effort.

Culture

From an internship to a GO-JEK employee

A short story about my internship and how I cracked what is arguably the toughest company to get into.

Tech

Why we built ‘Proctor’ — An Automation Orchestrator

How we went about solving infrastructure automation using our in-house product, Proctor. In the process, we increased the use of automation for multiple teams inside GO-JEK.

Tech

What is the GO-JEK Engineering Bootcamp?

Forget everything you’ve learnt about engineering. This is an intense, hands-on bootcamp designed to unlearn and equip the transformation of a graduate to a GO-JEK Engineer.

Tech

Architecting merchant powered Promotions in GO-FOOD

How we went about building an in-house service to automate promotions with GO-FOOD

Culture

Failures make us stronger — Part 2

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Tech

Darkroom: Realtime Image Processing

How we built a realtime image processing application and phased out a third-party tool, with zero downtime.

Tech

Containers, Shells, and Mounts, from Scratch

The second in a series of posts on running Containers we built without Docker, LXC, or rkt

Tech

Service Networking in a Hybrid Infrastructure

The first in a series of posts on challenges faced while migrating services and workload to containers

Embracing failures at GO-JEK — Part 1

Behind our hockey stick growth are stories of routine failures. We’re not shy to talk about what went wrong — it’s how we come out stronger, bolder.

Data

Sakaar: Taking Kafka data to cloud storage at GO-JEK

How we created a zero data loss cold storage data lake out of streaming Kafka data.

Tech

Building Containers from Scratch

The first in a series of posts on how our infrastructure team builds containers without Docker, LXC, and rkt

Culture

Programmer’s discipline

What we can learn from those who scale systems for a living

Culture

GO-TROOPS by the numbers

By Rayi Noormega We call the people behind GO-JEK, GO-TROOPS. They are the resilient, fun-loving and passionate learners who work in our offices. Here are the numbers behind our TROOPS! “I’ve used GO-JEK services on a daily basis, but who are the people behind this?” Has that question ever

Data

Anatomy and mindset of the data army at GO-JEK

Stories from the land of data at GO-JEK

Tech

An architectural overview of GO-JEK’s card personalisation engine

By Soham Kamani For the backstory on how we came up with a personalised experience for every GO-JEK user, click here. This post is about the mechanics of how this ambitious project came to fruition. TLDR; Our system is pull-based rather than push-based, and enforces a guaranteed response time.GO-JEK

Tech

How our DIY platform creates value through network effects

A quick reckoner on how we built a self-serve platform empowering data-driven decisions inside GO-JEK

Data

Chronicle: A story of building technical documentation for GO-DATA

How and why we designed one of the best internal product wiki