Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate

Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by AdrianB1 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:44PM (#20649639)

Only if you want to have a huge and complex system. If you have small and localized ones, it should be very cheap.

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by rightbyte on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:34PM (#20650026)

Ye, like one VM running per city or region. I feel they are just sinking money into software and administration of software.

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by fh973 on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:34AM (#20651364)

WhatsApp has shown that you can actually build large-scale system infrastructures very efficiently. And they had global service, Uber could profit from sharding as you suggest.

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by conanbatt on Friday August 09, 2019 @03:22AM (#20652022)

Apply for a job at Uber proposing a cut in engineering expenses with your plan and become instantly rich.

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by AdrianB1 on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:07AM (#20652209)

And never get hired because the people doing interviews have to protect their jobs :)

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