Software Development

What’s the Deal with Web Apps?

The popularity of web apps is on the rise, and Gojek provides the perfect platform for developers to showcase their vision.

Tech

Advice from a Test Journeyman

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

Tech

How We Handled a Large-scale AndroidX Migration

Key takeaways from Gojek’s consumer app migration.

Design

UX Engineering at GOJEK

If you’ve ever hung out with a bunch of designers at a party, you’d have probably heard them say something like “Man, things would be so much easier if engineers knew how to design” (Engineers probably harbour similar sentiments about designers, but it’s harder to observe this

Tech

The first principles of ‘Testing’

A journey into best practices a ‘tester’ should adhere to

Tech

What doesn’t work initially only makes you stronger — Team Lambda

This is Part 2 of a feature story on Team Lambda and what it aims to do.

Tech

How we built ‘BARITO’ to enhance logging

Building a logging infrastructure commensurate to GO-JEK’s scale

Tech

So you think you can index?

Tips and tricks to keep in mind while creating indexes.

Tech

How we solved ‘user selection’ to help merchants win business

Solving an integral piece of selecting the right kind of users to display food promotions that assure merchants achieve a desired set of objectives

Tech

How we use Machine Learning to match Drivers & Riders

Building Jaeger: Our driver allocation system harnessing Machine Learning and real-time features to optimise multiple business objectives

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.

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

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.

Culture

Failures make us stronger — Part 2

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Tech

Service Networking in a Hybrid Infrastructure

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

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 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

Design

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?

Tech

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