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How GOJEK Manages 1 Million Drivers With 12 Engineers (Part 2)

An overburdened codebase, an updated tech stack, a big rewrite— how a lean team built the foundation for a Super App

Introducing GO-JEK’s card personalization engine: Project shuffle

We have 18 products and the product pipeline is growing rapidly. Our users vary radically, but what if we can personalise products to every user and offer an ‘experience’ of using the GO-JEK app?

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Tips and tricks on how to clear our automated coding round

A definitive guide of our automated coding rounds — best practices, how to pass, common mistakes made and how to steer clear of them

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How we do driver ratings at GO-JEK

The art of creating actionable feedback for 1 Million drivers from 3 Million orders every day

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Fronting : An Armoured Car for Kafka Ingestion

We see 6 Billion+ events every day and it’s steadily rising. In order to make data-driven decisions, the completeness of data is a must.

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How to graduate from an apprentice to a star developer — Part 2

By Aroj George This is a continuation to my previous post on how to graduate from an apprentice to a star developer. Success can’t be achieved by merely being technically good. To really succeed, one needs to grow along three different dimensions: Technical SkillsEngineering Practices like CI, TDD, Agile

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The Joy of Coding: GO-JEK’s First Code Retreat

Our emphasis on learning, writing beautiful code and why everyone at GO-JEK codes regardless of seniority

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Kubehandler: An event dispatcher for Kube controllers

By Ravi Chandra Padmala For the past month, we’ve been working on a custom Kubernetes controller to help manage our resources. Since there isn’t much documentation around this, we started off with the Kubernetes sample-controller as a reference implementation. We soon got to a point where we were

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A DIY Two-Factor Authenticator in Golang

How Google Authenticator works, and a simple way to implement your own 2FA

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Tuning Postgres Autovacuum for Scale

By Sourabh Ghorpade TL;DR:If you have a write heavy table in your Postgres database and you’re using the default Postgres settings for autovacuum, writes may consume more Transaction IDs than the autovacuum can reclaim. This may lead to a database shutdown. To avoid it, consider tuning them

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The Zen of an Ideal Team

Building a lean, productive, and efficient team is not easy. Here are some strategies that work for us.

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How We Do What We Do at GOJEK

The nature of technology and our emphasis on automation

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A tale of two Lambdas — Solving Event Sourcing at GO-JEK

Team Lambda is trying to solve Event Sourcing at GO-JEK. We are building products for our developers to make the transition to event-sourcing seamless. In a nutshell, we are building a Heroku like PAAS framework to allow us to quickly create and deploy units of logic. Solving Events to Action

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Using job queues in Go for resilient systems

By Soham Kamani The job of any application, to put it bluntly, is to do things. Sometimes, those things may take time, and the application cannot wait to make sure they are done. But still, it’s necessary that they are. I’ll explain this with an example: For any