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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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