As DoorDash made the move from made-to-order restaurant delivery into the Convenience and Grocery (CnG) business, we had to find a way to manage an online inventory per merchant per store that went from tens of items to tens of thousands of items.
Category Archives: engineering
DoorDash announces new retail partnerships and shopping features to help consumers get what they need now
How I built this with Tony Xu
DoorDash identifies Five big areas for using Generative AI
In the wake of ChatGPT and Generative AI DoorDash is identifying ways this new technology can enhance the customer’s ordering experience on the platform.
Using Metrics Layer to Standardize and Scale Experimentation at DoorDash
Metrics are vital for measuring success in any data-driven company, but ensuring that these metrics are consistently and accurately measured across the organization can be challenging.
2022 Summer Intern Projects Article #3
DoorDash offers our summer interns the opportunity to fully integrate with Engineering teams to get the kind of real industry experience that is not taught in the classroom.
Using CockroachDB to Reduce Feature Store Costs by 75%
While building a feature store to handle the massive growth of our machine-learning (“ML”) platform, we learned that using a mix of different databases can yield significant gains in efficiency and operational simplicity.
Failure Mitigation for Microservices: An Intro to Aperture
When dealing with failures in a microservice system, localized mitigation mechanisms like load shedding and circuit breakers have always been used, but they may not be as effective as a more globalized approach.
How to Speed up Local Development of a Docker Application running on AWS
While most engineering tooling at DoorDash is focused on making safe incremental improvements to existing systems, in part by testing in production (learn more about our end-to-end testing strategy), this is not always the best approach when launching an entirely new business line.
How DoorDash Designed a Successful Write-Heavy Scalable and Reliable Inventory Platform
As DoorDash made the move from made-to-order restaurant delivery into the Convenience and Grocery (CnG) business, we had to find a way to manage an online inventory per merchant per store that went from tens of items to tens of thousands of items.