Posts tagged with Uber
A Brief History of Scaling Uber
On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. Fast forward to today where Uber is the largest mobility platform in the world, in over 70 countries, 10,500 cities, and 130 million users. Here's the story of the key moments in scaling Uber engineering ...
Do Things That Don't Scale
Launched in 2015 in Toronto, Uber Eats was the new kid on the block. With a scrappy tech stack and few tools, Operators hustled using spreadsheets and scripts to keep markets running. It was the ultimate "do things that don’t scale" moment that powered growth and shaped our future systems.
So, You Want to Move to Microservices?
As I reflected back on my time at LinkedIn, I put together a brief history of its scaling story. We had done the (now) classic migration from monolith to microservices. Just like oh I dunno, Amazon, Google, eBay, Twitter, Netflix, and my current employer Uber (to name a few). And why not? Mic...