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GrabCompany

Southeast Asian super-app: rides, delivery and payments

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RustSoftware

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The Integrity Data Platform (IDP) team decided to rewrite one of our heavy Queries Per Second (QPS) Golang microservices in Rust. It resulted in 70% infrastructure savings at a similar performance, but was not without its pitfalls.

Why Grab rewrote Counter Service from Go to Rust

engineering.grab.com ↗·2025-06-20Wrong?

GoSoftware Google

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Grab is predominantly based on a microservice architecture, with the vast majority of microservices being hosted in a monorepo and written in Golang. It has served the company well so far, as the “simplicity” of Golang allows developers to ramp up and iterate quickly.

Grab on Go as its default microservice language

engineering.grab.com ↗·2025-06-20Wrong?

React NativeSoftware

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We have a single codebase for both iOS and Android apps, which means that the modules take half the maintenance resources. Debugging is faster with React Native’s hot reloading.

Grab on using React Native in GrabPay and the Passenger app

engineering.grab.com ↗·2019-05-30Wrong?

KafkaSoftware

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Coban - Grab’s real-time data streaming platform - has been operating Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi in

Grab's streaming platform runs Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi

engineering.grab.com ↗·2023-12-26Wrong?

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