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The triangle of three S

The triangle of three S

Supposed that you will build a software product, which is your development style to make it work ? Let me suggest a pyramid of three S along your product life stage: Stage 1: Speed. When you build something from scratch, especially for a new business, you should strongly focus to adopt

Điều khó nhất khi xây dựng thuật toán điều phối đơn hàng

Điều khó nhất khi xây dựng thuật toán điều phối đơn hàng

Một trong những tính năng nổi bật của OnWheel là giải thuật tối ưu tối ưu đường đi, giúp đơn vị vận hành có thể điều phối hàng trăm đơn hàng cho hàng trăm phương tiện đi giao, phải đáp ứng nhiều tiêu chí khác nhau và có lộ trình

Customize Delivery Process by Mobile Embedded Feature

Customize Delivery Process by Mobile Embedded Feature

Delivery journey is considered as an activity of delivering goods from point A to point B and usually simply straightforward for 90% jobs of this kind. But in other side of 10% remaining, there are still complicated requirements for some specific businesses, which needs extra steps in real operation. As

OnWheel Quarter 2 Updates

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OnWheel Quarter 2 Updates

Another quarter of the year has flied, and OnWheel keep busy with many clients & product update & new business prospects. Allow me to walk through our proud achievements of the last season: 1. We released 3 official case studies to demonstrate how different businesses adopted OnWheel in amazing & innovating ways. Our

Compiling Sql At Runtime

Compiling Sql At Runtime

In a previous post, I already mentioned that we are heavily relying on Metabase for many use-cases, not only analytics but automation as well. In other words, Metabase is a very good SQL IDE for team to compose and track their business logic presentation in SQL. But this approach cause

"Wrong Location" Problem

"Wrong Location" Problem

At Ahamove (and OnWheel), we are facing with many interesting problems relating to map every day. Such a typical problem is "wrong location", when the address text is not correct to the expected coordinate provided bygeocode/places 3rd services. There are a lot of reasons for this, some from

Metabase - A tech bet case study

Metabase - A tech bet case study

Last week, we decided to suspend a Saas vendor of Business Intelligence Tooling. While the main reason is we can't afford the cost for existing high number of users, we also found that we already built a great ecosystem around our self-host BI tool - Metabase [https://www.metabase.com/

Technical debt & Disruption

Technical debt & Disruption

I love a saying from someone "Functionality is asset but codebase is liability". This very true in describing burden of system maintenance, especially when we compromised some technical deficiencies to gain some business solution at that time. Later on, we have to pay off for our imperfect technical solution when

Rust is in my 2021 watchlist

Rust is in my 2021 watchlist

I'm not kind of person forcing my team sticking into any specific technology, such as Golang, or Mongodb ... because I believe we should choose the right tech for a specific problem, we can't rely one-fit-all technology and limit our speed of innovation. Hence, I can say I am quite neutral

Chọn công nghệ nhàm chán

Chọn công nghệ nhàm chán

Gần đây có 1 đề tài thú vị được gọi là "hãy chọn công nghệ nhàm chán" (choose boring technologies), nhóm ủng hộ đưa ra các lí do khá thuyết phục: công nghệ nhàm chán ổn định, ít lỗi, scale tốt và có cộng đồng lập trình viên đông đảo.

AhaMove released 2 open sources

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AhaMove released 2 open sources

At AhaMove, we embraced a lot of open source softwares and truly grateful of OSS community for invaluable impacts to our company. To me, I think we are very lucky to start our business at the right time of many great OSS such as Metabase, Angular, React, etc ... and we

How we embrace serverless

How we embrace serverless

Serverless is a emerging but debatable technology trend recently. At AhaMove, we began exploring serverless since late 2018 with AWS Lambda, and quickly failed in love with this devops-free technology (I actually shared my view [https://medium.com/ghn-ahamove/serverless-to-be-or-not-to-be-e3b88ed5cf87] on serverless pros and cons before). Keep digging into this

Ways to use Route Optimization feature

Route Optimization

Ways to use Route Optimization feature

Route Optimization is the process of determining the most cost-efficent routes of a set of stoppoints. At AhaMove, we provide several methods to use our tool based on user's specific need and backgound, including both Technical user and Non-Technical user. Route Optimization feature on AhaMove webapp This is the simplest

OnWheel alternatives

OnWheel alternatives

If you try googling "fleet management software" like our OnWheel, you may find many candidates in both local and global market. So, let's discuss about some popular names in this field and differentiate ours from these names. For global brands in this segment, I know Tokan, Locust and OnFleet and

SQL is our brain

SQL is a standard tooling for data analytic. And it is quite easy to learn. My company at early days only had very few colleagues able to use SQL, but very quickly, we want to popularize this skill to all of teams, so that they can do data analytics for

Route Optimization at AhaMove

Route Optimization at AhaMove

This is a repost from my medium post [https://medium.com/ghn-ahamove/route-optimization-at-ahamove-e65eb4cb02ec] Introduction Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a huge topic relating to route optimization for a fleet of vehicles. There are quite a lot of derivatives from this general problem such as Capacitated VRP, Multiple Pickup-Delivery VRP, etc…

3PLs in Software Engineering

3PLs in Software Engineering

Who working in ecommerce would be familiar with "3PL" term - abbreviation of "third-party logistics". This term is a very critical part in the industry to ensure sale items are delivered within SLAs, hence a retailer/ecommerce platform usually works with a number of 3PLs very strictly with a lot