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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by asdfaoeu on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:17AM (#12152581)
> We assign cities to the geographically closest data center, but every city is backed up on a different data center in another location.
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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by matthewrudy on Sunday July 24, 2016 @05:40AM (#12152833)
I tried to debug this from Hong Kong, and the API calls definitely go to the US.

Maybe in Europe they resolve to a European data center, but in Asia they still seem to send everything via the US.

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