With AI integrated into every technology, things are constantly evolving to accommodate the changing nature of AI. The same goes for database technologies. With the increasing volume of data and the need to manage it, companies like TiDB are taking various…

Grab has embarked on a transformative journey to overhaul its enterprise data ecosystem, addressing challenges posed by the rapid growth of its business spanning across ride-hailing, food delivery, and financial services. With the increasing complexity of…

Title: Towards a High-Availability CP Database For Bitcoin Payments Introduction The CAP Theorem is: You can have any two of these three: Consistency Availability Partition-Tolerance Now, because network is unreliable, what you actually can have are any…

Partner Gateway serves as Grab's secure interface for exposing APIs to third-party entities, facilitating seamless interactions between Grab's hosted services and external consumers. This blog delves into the implementation of Apache Pinot within Partner…

Dive into the chaos and triumph of real-time optimisation in the face of high database utilisation! This article recounts a developer's adrenaline-fueled journey of transforming crisis into innovation—optimising campaign usage count tracking through highly…

Grab’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) introduces Scenarios, enabling real-time personalization at scale. By leveraging event triggers, geo-fencing, historical data, and predictive models, Grab delivers dynamic user experiences like mall offers, traveler recommendations…

Grab is redefining how engineers respond to operational incidents by introducing Kinabalu AI Site Reliability Engineering (AI SRE); an AI-assisted platform that brings together fragmented context, automates reasoning, and accelerates the path from alert to…

Large container images were causing slow cold starts and poor auto-scaling for Grab's data platforms. This post explores how we implemented Docker image lazy loading with Seekable OCI (SOCI) technology, to achieve faster image pulls and startup times. The…

The Analytics Data Warehouse (ADW) team at Grab supports over 1,000 users. These users support an extensive repository of more than 15,000 tables. To alleviate the time-consuming demands of repetitive tasks, the team implemented a multi-agent AI system. This…