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> Most real SV startups are, it seems, unfortunately just > building a business around a CRUD application (see > AirBnB, Uber, to name a few, but there are
by GrinningFool 10y ago
> Most real SV startups are, it seems, unfortunately just
> building a business around a CRUD application (see
> AirBnB, Uber, to name a few, but there are many many more).
I think you vastly underestimate the technology that goes into the parts of Uber we don't see -- the logistics of dispatching and monitoring a couple hundred thousand drivers (or so?) in real time.
- alttab 10y agoIn the grander scheme of things, that's scale and concurrency. Nothing about the code is particularly novel or difficult.
- kbenson 10y agoTrue, but there's something to be said for companies that execute well. Providing a smoother service or more intuitive/sleeker product can be the distinguishing factor that makes a company stand out, and you want cycles of that mixed in with cycles of innovation. Not that I'm making an argument that Uber itself executes particularly well. I have no idea about that.
- nemothekid 10y ago>In the grander scheme of things, that's scale and concurrency. I actually laughed out loud. I'm just the Postgres team would love your insight into how they can implement master-master replication because "it's not novel or difficult."
- hueving 10y agoRight, but those are problems solved by database technologies. Uber can follow pretty well-defined patterns at this point to scale up. Especially since they have a natural sharding point built into their product (each city).
- alttab 10y agoPretty much this. Like Uber's unique problem is master-master replication?
- cylinder 10y agoYes, so advanced that new versions by competitors that do the exact same thing seem to pop up weekly
- deanCommie 10y agoScale. End of discussion. What works for 100 customers/drivers does not work for 100,000