blackbuck Navigating Excellence: How BlackBuck's Process Optimisation Puts Uptime and Delivery in the Driver's Seat Explore how our precision in processes, agility in development, and data-driven decisions drive seamless customer experiences
Production Sanity Zero Stress, Full Control: Sanity Testing with Rush Environment Deep dive into the platform we built to manage short lived Header-Based Traffic Routing environments for conducting UAT and Production Sanity during every release
High Availability Agile Development Meets High Availability at BlackBuck Overview of platforms we built to achieve 99.99% availability of production systems in presence of frequent releases
Building for Bharat: Identifying the needs of BlackBuck’s unique user base By Greeshma Rawat An inside view on how BlackBuck conducts user research and testing to build better products User Research and its importanceUser research is essential to building a better product because it provides insights into the needs, preferences, and behaviours of the people
How BlackBuck's Telematics helps you keep a hawk-eye over your trucks - Part 2 What it takes to design a user-friendly theft protection feature for trucks! By Rishabhkumar Uday IntroductionIn the last part of this blog series, we discussed the importance of robust telematics solutions, described how our theft protection (relay) functions in a vehicle and how it's
How BlackBuck's Telematics helps you keep a hawk-eye over your trucks - Part 1 By Rishabhkumar Uday According to Niti Ayog's report 40 lakh + trucks move around 70% of the domestic freight in India making trucking the main facilitator of the movement of goods and products in the country. Even though it plays a crucial role in the
The Role of Data Science in Transforming Trucking By Deepak Warrier With approximately 75% of the goods being transported using trucks and with over 7 million trucks on road, the logistics economy in India is dominated by road freight. The small fleet operators who own less than 5 trucks are the backbone,
Why humanization and localization of product is critical in fueling digital inclusion: PART II By Greeshma Rawat & Devrat Singh Recap Part 1 of this blog talked about the growing need for localization of our product. We found out what our users needed and validated it through usability testing and user research. The end goal was for our
Why humanization and localization of product is critical in fueling digital inclusion: PART 1 By Greeshma Rawat & Devrat Singh IntroductionIndia is predominantly a vernacular country. Out of its 1.4 billion population, only 140 million people (~10%) speak English and less than 0.1% of the total population speak English as their first language in India. Language
Life@BlackBuck Stepping Up In Times Of Need: COVID Support Care Dealing with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic together as a team.
Securing Android Boss App Mobile apps have become a new way of interfacing with products. Securing your mobile apps is as important as coding it the right way. The users share personal data with mobile apps and it is our duty to our customers to keep this information
Product Management Trucking Marketplace: The BlackBuck Product Challenge! What is a marketplace?An online marketplace does the job of connecting sellers with buyers and gives value to both the sides. A seller gains visibility and trust easily in
Work, Flow, Business! Business Processes are the fundamental building blocks of every business. In order to achieve objectives of the business, processes are implemented which are performed by actors, which can be systems or employees. These processes help the teams perform the tasks in a systematic, predictable
Fraud detection Fraud Detection at BlackBuck Here’s an interesting overview and insight into the different types of fraud we had encountered and how our team has solved for the challenges to ensure proactive fraud detection and prevention is in place!
blackbuck Setting Up for Success Yet another new year is on us and finally, thought the time is ripe to sit down and reflect on my journey in 2020 (maybe the timing seems a little clichéd but as they say, “once in a while, look back so that the
distributed system AWS Managed ElasticSearch Data Migration to another domain Detailed guide on step-by-step data migration from AWS managed ElasticSearch domain to another!
distributed system MongoDB Cluster Migration With Zero Downtime An interesting read on detailed step-by-step overview for the MongoDB Cluster migration with zero downtime!
hackathon HACKATHON- An experience like no other An experience where you feel excited, nervous, rushed, motivated, tired, passionate, and enlightened, all within 48 hours!
telematics Telematics Stack and Platform Listening to the beat of thousands of trucks to enable fleet management in a modern and efficient way!
platform Distributed Tracing at Blackbuck Using Distributed Tracing to optimize APIs, remove cyclic dependencies and prevent cascading failure.
android Robust Image upload on Android How BlackBuck analyzes high-throughput image upload for Android
toll How we scaled Tolling Service at BlackBuck Scaling BlackBuck's Tolling server and infra to support 10x throughput
