# Onboarding
> 3 posts about Onboarding, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [How OVO determined the right technology stack for their web-based projects](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-ovo-determined-the-right-technology-stack-for-their-web-based-proj.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: George Matthew Limongan
- Published: Mar 21, 2023

OVO faced maintainability issues caused by fragmented web technology stacks, including PHP, Vue, React, Nuxt, and Go, alongside outdated documentation. This fragmentation resulted in severe context-switching costs during code reviews and prolonged onboarding times for new engineers. To establish a single primary front-end stack, the team compared React and Vue against maintainability principles encompassing operability, simplicity, and evolvability. Vue was selected because its standardized framework structure and documentation minimized architectural variations across projects. Implementation entailed creating a standardized Vue boilerplate, updating the internal UI library, and scheduling periodic upgrades for legacy React services rather than migrating them entirely.


### [How we automated FAQ responses at Grab](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-we-automated-faq-responses-at-grab.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Preeti Karkera
- Published: Jul 13, 2022

Internal engineering on-call engineers at Grab spent substantial working hours handling repetitive questions in Slack channels, such as how-to inquiries and access permission requests. To resolve this without building an in-house tool, the team conducted an anonymized vendor comparison and selected OneBar through an employee voting process and a phased proof-of-concept. Initial rollouts were restricted by contract to 20 channels, leading the team to prioritize deployment based on Slack message volume and member counts. Populating the knowledge base required roughly a quarter of consistent updates alongside tech talks, while a targeted crowdsourcing campaign among new onboarders expanded the glossary and grew usage to approximately 3,000 users.


### [Grab's Front End Study Guide](https://yomu.fyi/post/grab-s-front-end-study-guide.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Yangshun Tay
- Published: Jun 3, 2017

Rapid hiring and engineering expansion created a steep learning curve for newcomers and backend engineers unfamiliar with modern web architecture. Grab created an opinionated front-end study guide to help engineers navigate JavaScript tooling, state management, and modern application practices. The guide frames client-side single-page applications as a scalable alternative to traditional server-side rendering, enabling clear client-server separation for multiple client apps hitting the same backend API. It establishes core competencies in ECMAScript 2015 via Babel and explains how component-driven interfaces in React improve maintainability and performance through virtual DOM reconciliation. Ultimately, the resource aims to ramp up developer onboarding and accelerate shipping speeds across web platforms.