DoorDash runs on many microservices.
Category Archives: Backend
Lessons learned building DoorDash’s clusterless ML feature store
There has never been a technology revolution bigger than the one we are experiencing right now.
Fighting Fraud at Scale: Insights from building a real-time rules engine
Fraud doesn’t wait for deployments.
Unified Dasher Onboarding: A modular platform to scale globally
Onboarding is the first critical step in a Dasher’s journey with DoorDash.
Optimizing DoorDash’s in-house search engine platform
In early 2024, DoorDash faced the challenge of keeping pace with the rapidly evolving demands of global search.
SafeChat: DoorDash’s AI-powered safety feature
DoorDash handles a large volume of user-generated content every day, including millions of messages and hundreds of thousands of images.
Engineering Autonomy for Local Commerce: Building Dot and the Autonomous Delivery Platform
Autonomy is scaling fast.
Inside DoorDash’s Service Mesh Journey: Part 1 — Migration at Scale
DoorDash has significantly evolved its traffic platform in recent years, transitioning to a service mesh architecture that now supports more than 80 million requests per second during peak hours.
Part 2: Building a configuration-driven badge serving framework at DoorDash
In 2023, DoorDash launched a number of item badges to help customers make more informed shopping decisions.
Building an in-house case management platform
Consumers, Dashers, and merchants rely on DoorDash support every day to quickly resolve issues like missing items or delayed orders.