The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by golergka on Sunday July 24, 2016 @06:22AM (#12152917)

> Facebook originally tried to do that, then discovered that, as they grew, friends weren't local.

Interesting. Do you have a link on that?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by stygiansonic on Sunday July 24, 2016 @07:11AM (#12153017)

Basically, it was a way to partition users as some form of horizontal scaling. See these two Quora posts:

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by Animats on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:17PM (#12154405)

EE380 talk at Stanford with Facebook devs. They were there to talk about their PHP compiler, but got into how Facebook scales.

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