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Grab's Android team cracked a 6-year problem that stumped multiple attempts: enabling R8 optimization across 9 million lines of code. One engineer led the charge, and AI was the secret weapon.

Grab's engineering team just reclaimed terabytes of storage across 100+ million Android devices without breaking a sweat. Their secret? A clever twist on a decades-old caching algorithm.

Cursor at Grab: Adoption and impact

Company: Grab · Jan 29, 2026
Platform: Desktop

Grab achieved 98% monthly active adoption of Cursor across their engineering org in just months. That's nearly 30 points higher than industry benchmarks for high-performing teams.

Ever tried debugging a mobile app crash without knowing what the user actually did? You're flying blind.

Grab moved 250+ Mac minis from a US cloud to a Malaysian data center. The results? 40% faster builds and $2.4M saved.

How We Reduced GrabX SDK Initialisation Time

Company: Grab · Nov 22, 2024
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's SDK was taking 4 minutes to initialize with 400MB of config data. That's a cold start problem that kills autoscaling.

Grab's configuration management SDK was crushing service performance with memory spikes and CPU throttling. 98% of services were loading 100x more data than they actually needed.

Grab's engineering team faced a brutal problem: rain in Southeast Asia would crash their entire ride-hailing system. When demand spiked locally, users everywhere suffered.

Debugging High Latency in the Market Store

Company: Grab · Oct 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's ML feature store went from 200ms to 2 second latency. The culprit? A single line of code in an async library.

Performance Bottlenecks in Go Apps

Company: Grab · Aug 4, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's engineering team discovered their Go apps were mysteriously throttling at 1.94 CPU cores but flying at 2 cores. The culprit? A sneaky interaction between Kubernetes VPA and GOMAXPROCS.

Profile-Guided Optimisation

Company: Grab · Apr 7, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's engineering team just unlocked 30% memory savings and 38% storage reduction with a simple compiler flag. Here's how Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) delivered massive gains with minimal code changes.

Grab's iOS team turned flaky CI tests into a 50% CPU reduction story. Their secret? Observability tools and some creative workarounds for Xcode 13.1's notorious Spotlight bug.

Grab's engineering team learned the hard way: retries and circuit breakers aren't enough when you're running hundreds of microservices at scale.

Grab lost 95% of ride bookings for a full minute when a single Redis slave node failed. Their highly available cluster with multiple replicas somehow became a single point of failure.

Project Bonsai

Company: Grab · Aug 12, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's Android app had 4 million lines of code and was bleeding users. Google's research showed every 6MB increase costs 1% of conversions.

React Native in GrabPay

Company: Grab · Jul 15, 2021
Platform: React Native

Grab built their entire GrabPay merchant app in React Native, then used those learnings to rebuild core payment features in their main passenger app. The result? Half the maintenance resources with identical pe...

App Modularisation at Scale

Company: Grab · Jun 17, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab went from one monolithic mobile app to over 1,000 modules. Here's what they learned about scaling a superapp.

Grab's logging bills were spiraling out of control. Their solution? A complete rethink of how they capture what happens in production.

Grab reduced their super app's startup time by 60% while shipping dozens of new features. Here's how they saved users 59,582 hours per day.

Journey to a Faster Everyday Super App

Company: Grab · Dec 26, 2019
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab cut app startup time by 60% while shipping dozens of new features. Here's how they did it without compromising velocity.

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