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  1. App stability at scale with a layered defense

    To maintain app stability amidst rapid weekly releases and AI-generated code, Grab uses a layered defense strategy covering prevention, release gates, and incident response. This pipeline includes static analysis via custom lint rules, multiple tiers of automated and manual testing, a pre-production early access build, staged rollouts, and feature flags with instant kill switches. As a result, critical defects are caught early in the development lifecycle before reaching the wider production user base.

    DEPTH ■■■■■16 min read4 days ago

    MobileReliability

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  2. Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

    Following physical strikes on Yandex data centers, overall HTTP traffic from the network dropped significantly, leading to speculation that malicious bot farms had been disabled. However, traffic analysis revealed that search crawling simply decreased while malicious automation quickly migrated to other hosting providers with identical fingerprints. Consequently, overall malicious bot traffic remained flat, demonstrating that network disruptions do not stop portable automated workloads.

    DEPTH ■■■■■8 min read11 days ago

    Incidents & Postmortems

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