The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by garyclarke27 on Sunday July 24, 2016 @05:07AM (#12152788)

True, I think their CTO must be confused and easily mislead by techies who just want to get the latest buzz words onto their cvs. Silly comments such as - we gain true insight from pretty graphics rather than tedious sql queries - says it all for me. I suppose they have to burn the insane amount of capital they raised $50 Billion somehow?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by danpalmer on Sunday July 24, 2016 @09:45AM (#12153277)

I recommend reading "The Visual Display of Quantitive Information" by Tufte. I would have partially agreed with you before, but I really do think that correct visualisation of data can make it vastly more useful, and as a few other commenters have noted, Uber has a big challenge to differentiate themselves from Lyft and others, and effective use of data could well be one of their differentiators.

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by icebraining on Sunday July 24, 2016 @09:54AM (#12153300)

That's quite condescending; their CTO is no rookie.

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