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Backend Minimizing Risk for API Extraction in a Major Migration Project

DoorDash engineering describes its three step process for safely migrating business logic as APIs.

David Chen

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Backend

Migrating from Heroku to AWS (using Docker)

At DoorDash, providing a fast, on-demand logistics service would not be possible without a robust computing infrastructure to power our backend systems. After all, it doesn’t matter how good our algorithms and application code are if we don’t have the server capacity to run them. Recently, we realized that our existing Heroku-based infrastructure wasn’t meeting ...

Designing an On-Demand Logistics System

At DoorDash, we’re building more than just an app. We’re building a system of products to enable on-demand delivery for local cities. People don’t use DoorDash because we have a pretty, easy-to-use app that allows you to order food. People use DoorDash because we provide the fastest and most reliable delivery service. At the end ...

Implementing REST APIs with Embedded Privacy

Here at DoorDash, we’re tackling the problem of real-time delivery by integrating all players involved into our logistics platform. By controlling the entire stack of the delivery process, we believe we’re positioned to provide the most consistent logistics. In order to provide integrated logistics for our restaurant food delivery service, we’ve had to build out ...