The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by BenPlanetary on Sunday July 24, 2016 @10:36AM (#12153420)

Your user accounts aren't global? So does that mean if I travel to a new city I have to create a whole new account?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by matthewrudy on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:37AM (#12153566)

Surprisingly although we have user accounts implemented, most of our customers don't use them.

But yes, as it stands, if you create a user account it is distinct per country.

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by praneshp on Sunday July 24, 2016 @12:47PM (#12153772)

Why would having federated logins be difficult to implement?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by matthewrudy on Sunday July 24, 2016 @02:07PM (#12154091)

It's just not important enough to do.

Startup resources, business priorities, customer behaviour...

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by dbbk on Monday July 25, 2016 @11:02AM (#12159132)

Surely customers travelling to new cities/countries they don't know is significant behaviour?

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by steven2012 on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:36AM (#12153565)

I've traveled to a dozen cities with Uber and didn't have to change my account, even in China. So the answer is no.

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by dbbk on Monday July 25, 2016 @11:01AM (#12159128)

They said they were an Uber-like system, not Uber itself.

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