Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut...
by TeMPOraL on Saturday August 10, 2019 @05:30AM
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> realtime service with second-SLAs that needs to know where you are, where the closest 20 drivers are, the map of the area, places of interest and a dozen other things - for millions of users in hundreds of cities
That's actually "for thousands of users in one city" executed a few hundred times, and map/PoI/pathfinding parts can be (are?[0]) outsourced to a third party.
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[0] - I don't use Uber as a matter of principle, but the competitor I use utilizes Google Maps for these parts. So do food delivery companies I use.
That's actually "for thousands of users in one city" executed a few hundred times, and map/PoI/pathfinding parts can be (are?[0]) outsourced to a third party.
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[0] - I don't use Uber as a matter of principle, but the competitor I use utilizes Google Maps for these parts. So do food delivery companies I use.