At Grab, building technology is only half the story—the real challenge is keeping it running seamlessly at scale. While new innovations often steal the spotlight, the majority of effort lies in maintaining and evolving the systems that power millions of rides, deliveries, and payments every day.

Simplifying maintenance is more than just operational efficiency—it’s about enabling teams to focus on meaningful, productive work. By automating and streamlining how we manage our compute platform, we’ve been able to keep things running with a relatively small team, without compromising on reliability or performance.

This session will also spotlight Flink at Grab and how we’ve leveraged machine learning to optimize our real-time data pipelines. Resource costs are a major challenge in real-time systems, and our approach—first shared at Flink Forward Berlin 2024—drew strong interest from the global community. We’ll dive deeper into how we’ve tackled these challenges and what it means for scaling efficiently.

In our upcoming Vietnam Product & Tech Talk, you’ll hear success stories from Grab’s engineering leaders on how simplification and automation have transformed platform maintenance—from reducing manual overhead to unlocking more time for innovation.

Whether you’re scaling systems, leading platform teams, or simply curious about the unsung side of tech operations, this session will offer practical insights and lessons learned to help you rethink how maintenance can drive impact at scale.