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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.

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?
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...

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?