2016 Summary
Hello, blog!
It has been a long while since the last time I sat down and let feelings flow from mind to paper.
2016 has been generally gorgeous so far, especially I moved from Singapore to Seattle in October and have not regretted the decision yet :-)
I visited Qinghai and Tibet in September, the journey includes a 2200KM road trip, 48 hours travel by train and 3 flghts across China, it was so fun and inspiring that no words can really describe it. So let me try with a few photos.
Yamzhog Yumco
QingHai Lake
Potala Palace
In terms of study and work, I have read some good books and tried lots of new things during 2016 that I really enjoyed and learnt a lot.
I have spent most of this year building varies data services and streaming platform in Grab and be honored to work with some of the most brilliant engineers I have ever met, we have managed to provide core data accesses to 90% of services in Grab with under 10 milliseconds latency averagely and stays reliable under 15000+ requests per second peak. The streaming platform we’ve built now produces hundreds of gigabytes of data per day and delivers billions of events to multiple subscribers in subsecond.
And this is just a beginning, hopefully we can keep learning, keep innovating and keep growing in 2017.
For some of you might interested in the books I found interesting and inspiring, here is list of them in different categories:
Computer Science
- Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
- Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
Business
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves
Fiction
For those who find what we are doing in Grab interesting and want to explore more, we are actually hiring!