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A collection of 99 posts

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

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

Tech

How we do driver ratings at GO-JEK

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

Tech

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.

Culture

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

Culture

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

Tech

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

Tech

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

Culture

The Zen of an Ideal Team

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

Tech

How We Do What We Do at GOJEK

The nature of technology and our emphasis on automation

Culture

The Dynamics of Scaling an Organisation

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Tech

ESLint + Prettier For a Consistent React Codebase

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Tech

How GOJEK Manages 1 million Drivers With 12 Engineers (Part 1)

The story of GOJEK’s first ever team, and consequently, the psyche of how 200 engineers run a Super App of 18+ products.

Culture

A Chance to Build Startups Within a Startup

Here is a story I can not shut up about.

Culture

Cracking the Code to build an All-Star Product team

A simple hack on building and scaling culture in a hyper-growth startup

Tech

Limiting “Software Infant mortality” rate — decoding GO-JEK’s Deployment Checklist

Every time you deploy a piece of software, you’re unknowingly taking an infant on a crazy ride

Culture

Scaling culture at GO-JEK

For us at GO-JEK, culture is a collective philosophy about how to build products that change lives.

Culture

The biggest problem for an engineering team is when you don’t have problems

“If your team is not coming up with problems, it’s a bigger problem.”

Tech

Preparing for the upside

The introduction of the Minimum Viable Product or MVP was a reaction to a cognitive bias commonly seen in startups

Culture

Insider’s Cheat-sheet: What does it take to shine at GO-JEK Engineering?

Working with a bunch of super-brainy, highly motivated and passionate individuals on bleeding edge technologies to solve real-life challenges

Culture

My experience with hypergrowth

How GO-JEK grew 900X in completed orders in its first 18 months