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How large language models help shoppers find what they mean, not just what they type. Author: Aarav Nigam Introduction Every search box eventually hits a wall where traditional search stops being useful. Searching tide powder 100g on Instamart works seamlessly. Exact keywords…
1. Introduction In the on-demand food delivery ecosystem, an app’s Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) is the foundation of customer trust. Promise 25 minutes for a 40-minute delivery, and you leave a customer frustrated. Show 50 minutes for a 30-minute delivery, and that customer…
The OS decides whether your app may open a URL — before any of your code runs. We swapped the SDK underneath that, without republishing the links we already owned.A partner taps a link in an SMS, a push, a share sheet — and lands on the exact screen they needed. We changed the…
Author: Jayshmi A Special thanks to soumyajyoti banerjee , Meghana Negi, Shaik Masihullah, Akash Deep for their contributions throughout this project and Sunil Rathee for his guidance. The counterintuitive story of how 350+ carefully engineered features + a simple MLP matched…
Building Swiggy’s AI onboarding companion for delivery executives, where accuracy alone wasn’t enough and mentorship had to scale.For a new Delivery Executive (DE) joining Swiggy, the experience is often overwhelming, throwing a world of SOPs, incentive structures, zone…
Engineering across all Swiggy Apps has always had a simple problem with a very large surface area: we ship fast, but every release, every production signal, and every operational review touches too many systems. For a single release manager or on-call engineer, the day could…
🎭 The Mystery Begins Picture this: You’re a responsible Android developer. You’ve done everything right. You’ve replaced those bulky PNGs with lighter, elegant, scalable SVGs. You’ve patted yourself on the back. You’ve probably even tweeted about it. Then one day, you open the…
At Swiggy, we use Protocol Buffers everywhere. Nearly every message exchanged between our backend services and our mobile apps is a protobuf. On Android, the default and most widely adopted way to work with those schemas was protobuf-java, Google’s official Java runtime, with…
Scaling Android CI: From 44 → 10 minutes — A Deep Dive into Build Time Optimization and Best Practices Android monorepos get expensive and slow as they scale. We re-architected CI/CD caching, trimmed the Gradle graph, tuned the JVM, modernized the toolchain, and finally moved to…
You did something wrong as a kid. You knew you weren’t supposed to. And somewhere in the house, your mom just found out. Your heart is going faster than it ever has. You’re calculating exit routes. And then you hear it: the slap of a chappal being picked up. You’ve accepted your…
Introduction If you have ever filed a complaint on an e-commerce app — uploaded a photo of a damaged packet, reported a wrong item, or flagged an expired product — you were probably expecting a quick, fair resolution. You were not thinking about what happens on the other side.…
IWTCIntroduction If you have ever typed “I want to cancel my order” into a support chat, you were probably not looking for a workflow. You were looking for clarity, speed, and some assurance that the platform understood what had gone wrong. At Swiggy, this seemingly simple…
The Problem A Delivery Executive (DE) finishes their day, opens the app, and expects a clear breakdown of what they earned. Instead, they often see a payout that does not fully match their expectations — an incentive missing, a deduction they do not recognise, or a credited…
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