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> I have personally watched millions and millions of dollars burnt on building on such platform while our competitor (Uber) became one of the biggest unicorns t
by olalonde 9y ago
> I have personally watched millions and millions of dollars burnt on building on such platform while our competitor (Uber) became one of the biggest unicorns the world has ever seen.
Funny that you picked this example given that Uber itself is known for heavily using and popularising microservices: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-from-scaling-uber-to-2000-engineers-1000-ser.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-f....
- oblio 9y agoYeah, but didn't Uber do it because they were going for a huge headcount increase? They went from 50 engineers to 2000 in a year or so and they were facing all sorts of non tech issues such as shipping the org chart, engineer recruiting limitations (i.e. easier to recruit 2000 devs knowing any language than just 2000 Java devs), etc. I don't think you can apply the lessons from a startup burning billions per year in many other places...
- Benjammer 9y agoThe Uber cargo cult is real.