Tech

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A Week of Learning Agile Development

January 3, 2021

Away from the hustle of production work, we organized a series of team activities to grow our agile development capabilities. Each full-day of activity was themed: Day 1 — Refactoring Day 2 — Code Smells Day 3 — Testing Legacy...

Data & AI

Crisis, Replication and A/B Testing

May 4, 2020

Background “Science is in a methodological crisis” — this seems to be a common sentiment among academics. In a survey of 1,500 researchers, 70% of them said they had failed to replicate another scientist’s experiment [1]. In a 2009 study, 14%...

Order Anything: Introducing Careem NOW’s newest feature

January 15, 2020

Starting today, there’s so much more you can do on Careem NOW, our delivery app. Discover our upgraded, super-smooth booking and tracking features, and order anything you need, exactly when and where you need it – all in a few...

Infrastructure

How to break the monolithic database

May 22, 2019

Monolithic applications are increasingly being replaced with smaller, more easily maintainable, components or services that communicate with each other to accomplish the same task in a more efficient manner. As services are separated from each other, it becomes easier to...

Infrastructure

Making database changes at scale

April 18, 2019

High Availability is key to any production environment. Anyone who has worked in consumer-based applications knows how hard it is to maintain uptime and make the application available 24/7 — especially in a fast-evolving environment, or one that needs to...

How Careem’s Destination Prediction Service speeds up your ride

February 19, 2019

In Dubai, there are around 8,000 restaurants, the world’s tallest building, over 50 malls, lots of beaches, theme parks and much more. The number of destinations is vast – so where are you going next? You’re not the only one...

Design

Tech

How Careem designs for inclusivity

September 25, 2018

It’s World Interaction Design Day, and this year’s theme is Diversity and Inclusion in Design. With a region as diverse as ours, we thought we’d give you a look into how we try to design and ensure our design is...

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An oral history of Careem’s launch

August 29, 2018

One of the things Careem aims to do is to inspire other tech start-ups in the region. So, we thought it might be nice to show that while Careem is now a large tech company, its origins were humble and in...

Careem app

Why the Careem app is more than just a tool for ride hailing

August 2, 2018

You know the Careem app. And in the last six years at Careem we have built a large ride-hailing business, but what we’ve really built is a large Internet business. Careem is a tech company first and foremost, and in...