The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by zer0gravity on Sunday July 24, 2016 @04:19AM (#12152696)

You know that saying : "I didn't have time to write a short letter so I wrote a long one".

With this kind of technology stack you end up when you try to move fast. I'm sure that if more time and thought would have been put into it, it would have been more elegant and simple. But has time these days ?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by chiph on Sunday July 24, 2016 @09:52AM (#12153297)

I had similar thoughts. "Wow. All those moving parts. Each one of which could fail." Each new piece of unique technology added means that it's probability of failure gets multiplied against what you already have.

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by carterehsmith on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:22AM (#12153523)

According to the article, this is not their first take at the architecture. There are links that point to their older setups.

So the current architecture is what they came up with after some time and some thought have been put into.

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