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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by djsumdog on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:37PM (#15818254)
> they can lay off a ton of staff, and license their logistics software to a lot of companies.

I have a feeling this isn't as easy as you think. There are some great talks on Uber's microservice architecture and it's pretty insane. They could create new services, but I have a feeling their existing infrastructure is very custom. They've got over 1,000 microservices and it's actually difficult to get an exact number.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by gaius on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:40PM (#15818283)
Uber's microservice architecture and it's pretty insane

Symptomatic of too many engineers and too little leadership

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by bunderbunder on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:41PM (#15818840)
"Too many engineers" is the impression I tend to come away with whenever I attend a tech talk by someone from the more fiscally beleaguered of the tech darlings.

The talk is invariably about some really impressive bit of software that appears to have required equally heaping measures of smarts and money to build, and also appears to be a $10 solution to a 10¢ problem.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by ethbro on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:29PM (#15819220)
Never underestimate the ability of someone with an IQ of 135 to make every problem difficult.
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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by endorphone on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:32PM (#15819242)
Yet technology has never been a problem or a limiting factor of Uber. Uber deserves plenty of criticism, yet it seems rich to blame technology when they grew from nothing to enormous with few if any hiccups. It worked.

But yeah, extraordinarily few internal projects can be turned into an external project without enormous rework. It's only the myth of middle managers who perceive software as a growing asset who think otherwise.

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Re:Uber’s Losses Widen as SoftBank Launches Bid to Buy Shares by sidlls on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:37PM (#15819288)
That explains most of the engineering culture in the Valley, really. Even the "leadership" is on board with it, because they have their own resume driven development to pursue.
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