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A collection of 30 posts

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Building A Tool To Improve Go Codebase's Test Coverage

Taking the test coverage from 55% to 85% - here's how we built Go-coverage.

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[DIY] Set Up Telegraf, InfluxDB, & Grafana on Kubernetes

A guide to getting started with monitoring and alerting.

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En-route To Improved Order Fulfilment

Unpacking Augur, Gojek’s ML-based serviceability service for an improved food ordering experience.

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Drafting a JVM With Rust

How to implement a stack-based virtual machine.

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The Story of Our Big Android App Rewrite

The steps we took to overcome inefficient architecture and sub-par design to give our driver SuperApp a much-needed overhaul.

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Advice from a Test Journeyman

Tips on how to quickly gain ground in the diverse world of software testing.

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The Journey to Beta Launch: Gojek’s Singapore Story

A timeline of the 45 days leading up to the launch of the Gojek app in Singapore.

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How to Unlock the Full Potential of Kafka Producers

Explaining Producer configs that improve performance in Kafka pipelines.

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How to Secure a SuperApp

From fighting fires at exploding scale to building robust security processes — the journey of Gojek’s Security team

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Good Morning, Vietnam — How GOJEK Went International

From Indonesia’s glittering waters to Vietnam’s wooded forests — how GOJEK set up operations in its first international location.

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How I Gave My First Conference Talk

The behind-the-scenes experience of a first-time speaker.

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What You Might Not Know About LayoutInflater on Android

Two important things to keep in mind before using LayoutInflater’s ‘Inflate’ method.

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Sealing the deal for safe deliveries

How we fixed irregularities in the return of undelivered packages on GO-SEND.

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What is a ‘Super App’?

Lessons in building an ecosystem — it’s always about thinking ahead for the long haul.

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How to Use Declarative Pipelines in Kotlin

Working on long, memory-intensive operations is stressful. Fret not, declarative pipelines are your friend.

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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.

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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.

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Failures make us stronger — Part 2

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Programmer’s discipline

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

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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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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

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How to graduate from an apprentice to a star developer — Part 1

This is for young engineers who want to climb up the ladder and make meaningful contributions

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Wrestling with a Monstrous Xcode Project

Cutting down GO-JEK’s Compile Time from 30 minutes to under 3

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Why we ask for code

When your ideal candidates make up just 0.5% of the job market, code is the best criteria to hire the right people.

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How to build Resilience in large scale Distributed Systems

Lessons learnt in building Resilience for large scale Distributed Applications