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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by mkagenius on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:50AM (#12152645)
> tracking of where all the active drivers are, pinging maybe once a minute.

Once every 5 seconds will be more accurate.

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by dzhiurgis on Sunday July 24, 2016 @12:21PM (#12153690)
Driver app pings central server every 15 seconds. If any ride requests are available, it displays it to driver.
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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by ambicapter on Sunday July 24, 2016 @10:10AM (#12153341)
And will 30x the number of requests...
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