This wasn't a derivation from the repo count, it was in response to the debug part of the talk where he was talking about fan out. Some app was iterating throug

This wasn't a derivation from the repo count, it was in response to the debug part of the talk where he was talking about fan out. Some app was iterating through a list of things and for each thing was making a network request, instead of figuring out what it needed up front. It's either complete laziness or incompetence, probably the later. I assume with any company that has that many services their culture is partly to blame, too. It's interesting because this kind of technical debt will eventually open the door to competitors once Uber is under more financial pressure...i.e. they have burned through all the investor money.