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In the grander scheme of things, that's scale and concurrency. Nothing about the code is particularly novel or difficult.
by alttab 10y ago
In 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?