Stories from the land of data at Gojek — At Gojek, we build products that help millions of Indonesians commute, shop, eat and pay, daily. The Data Engineering team is responsible to create a reliable data infrastructure across all of Gojek’s 18+ products. Mission We aim to provide disproportionately large advantages to Gojek over its competitors by making data available…

How and why we designed one of the best internal product wiki — At Gojek, the Data Engineering team is responsible for crafting reliable data infrastructure across all of Gojek’s 18+ products. We aim to provide disproportionately large advantages to Gojek over competitors by making data available, accessible, reliable, and actionable at scale. Our GO-DATA platform allows teams to build on our products…

Given that our internal services generate billions of events a day, our data infrastructure must be highly scalable, available, and flexible enough to keep up with rapid product iteration and exponential data growth. This results in spending a substantial portion of our time in infrastructure provisioning, load testing, and system…

Building confidence in system behaviour through disaster simulation experiments — It’s important for us to build a resilient and scalable data infrastructure when we have 18+ products. This means designing systems that can sustain operations in the face of failure. Built on the principles of Chaos Engineering, and tailored to our specific use cases, Loki is our internal disaster simulation…

At GO-JEK, we build products that help millions of Indonesians commute, shop, eat and pay, daily. The ‘Data Engineering’ (DE) team is responsible to create a reliable data infrastructure across all of GO-JEK’s 18+ products. In the process of realising this vision, here are some learnings: Scale: Data at GO-JEK…

Aggregation and visualization of billions of data points daily — At GO-JEK, location is built into the fabric of all our products, powering dozens of products that are used by millions of customers and drivers, daily. Here’s a tweet from one of our investors from when this post was written to help contextualise our scale. As a result, we…

In a hyper-growth organization like GO-JEK, technology plays a vital role. However, as an organization matures, the hard part is not scaling the technology, but paying heed to culture. For us at GO-JEK, culture is a collective philosophy about how to build products that change lives. …

It’s a mindset, not a skillset — Throughout my career, I’ve have changed job roles more frequently than I have changed buses. I started out being a tutor, then sold health insurance, marketed embedded products, designed interfaces, developed embedded systems, wrote software, wrote stories as a data journalist, was an entrepreneur and much more. As a software…

Just another day in the life of one. August 2014, I was in the process of evaluating the tech stack for my next project. …