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Re:Uber lays off 435 people by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:39AM (#20938491)
83 countries, 858 cities, 75 million riders, 3 million drivers.

5 billion rides in 2017. That's 14 million a day on average. I would guesstimate peak days have at least double the average.

That is data heavy to me. (-;

https://muchneeded.com/uber-statistics/

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Re:Uber lays off 435 people by theincredulousk on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:41PM (#20942728)
In the grand scheme of things it just isn't. 14 million rides a day, giving them a generous 1MB of data per ride, is "only" 14TB, 420TB/month. The data relevant to a ride for the clients like GPS location and ETA can fit into a few bytes...

A single video doorbell can use 200GB / month. With only 10,000 users that is 2 Petabytes of data traffic per month. Not to mention recordings that have to be stored and hosted for streaming later on.

Everything is relative (-;

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