BlackBuck Engineering Blog

Overview of the challenges we faced and the solutions we implemented as we launched the new category of fuel telematics.

Explore how our precision in processes, agility in development, and data-driven decisions drive seamless customer experiences

Deep dive into the platform we built to manage short lived Header-Based Traffic Routing environments for conducting UAT and Production Sanity during every release

Overview of platforms we built to achieve 99.99% availability of production systems in presence of frequent releases

By Greeshma Rawat An inside view on how BlackBuck conducts user research and testing to build better products

User Research and its importance User research is essential to building a better product because it provides insights into the needs, preferences, and behaviours of the people

What it takes to design a user-friendly theft protection feature for trucks! By Rishabhkumar Uday Introduction In the last part of this blog series, we discussed the importance of robust telematics solutions, described how our theft protection (relay) functions in a vehicle and how it's

By Rishabhkumar Uday According to Niti Ayog's report 40 lakh + trucks move around 70% of the domestic freight in India making trucking the main facilitator of the movement of goods and products in the country. Even though it plays a crucial role in the

By Deepak Warrier With approximately 75% of the goods being transported using trucks and with over 7 million trucks on road, the logistics economy in India is dominated by road freight. The small fleet operators who own less than 5 trucks are the backbone,

By Greeshma Rawat & Devrat Singh Recap Part 1 of this blog talked about the growing need for localization of our product. We found out what our users needed and validated it through usability testing and user research. The end goal was for our

By Greeshma Rawat & Devrat Singh Introduction India is predominantly a vernacular country. Out of its 1.4 billion population, only 140 million people (~10%) speak English and less than 0.1% of the total population speak English as their first language in India. Language

Dealing with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic together as a team.

Mobile apps have become a new way of interfacing with products. Securing your mobile apps is as important as coding it the right way. The users share personal data with mobile apps and it is our duty to our customers to keep this information

What is a marketplace? An online marketplace does the job of connecting sellers with buyers and gives value to both the sides. A seller gains visibility and trust easily in

Business Processes are the fundamental building blocks of every business. In order to achieve objectives of the business, processes are implemented which are performed by actors, which can be systems or employees. These processes help the teams perform the tasks in a systematic, predictable

Here’s an interesting overview and insight into the different types of fraud we had encountered and how our team has solved for the challenges to ensure proactive fraud detection and prevention is in place!

Yet another new year is on us and finally, thought the time is ripe to sit down and reflect on my journey in 2020 (maybe the timing seems a little clichéd but as they say, “once in a while, look back so that the

Detailed guide on step-by-step data migration from AWS managed ElasticSearch domain to another!

Trucking: A True Barometer of India’s GDP

An interesting read on detailed step-by-step overview for the MongoDB Cluster migration with zero downtime!

Sneak Peek into BlackBuck's Hackathon - HACK.kar 2.0!

An experience where you feel excited, nervous, rushed, motivated, tired, passionate, and enlightened, all within 48 hours!

Listening to the beat of thousands of trucks to enable fleet management in a modern and efficient way!

Using Distributed Tracing to optimize APIs, remove cyclic dependencies and prevent cascading failure.

How BlackBuck analyzes high-throughput image upload for Android

Scaling BlackBuck's Tolling server and infra to support 10x throughput