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Re:Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff by hildaman on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:14PM (#23014905)
I once saw some article about them writing their own rich chat client for their internal tooling because their existing solution wouldn't "uber scale" - whatever that meant.
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Re:Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff by wpietri on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:20PM (#23014948)
That reminds me of the delightful "MongoDB is web scale" spoof video from years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Clearly Uber scale is one level up!

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