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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by dang on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:28PM (#12154448)
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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by gaius on Monday July 25, 2016 @11:25AM (#12159296)
He or she is correct that the cash settlements were and are batched, but authorizations, reservations etc were online - to the mainframe that's just another transaction.

The reason settlements were batched was to save on wire fees.

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