How Grab improves Performance Profiling on Android

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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.

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.

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 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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