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Probabaly more of an emotional, rather then rational decision. I heard that many Go folks from Google joined Uber. Looking at the stock, they probably should f
by kerng 7y ago
Probabaly more of an emotional, rather then rational decision. I heard that many Go folks from Google joined Uber.
Looking at the stock, they probably should focus on building new things/better the business model, rather then rewriting things in Go.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoWhat else have they got to do, though? Uber have thousands of engineers to develop and maintain a taxi hailing app...
- ninkendo 7y agoWork on their internal chat app, I guess? https://eng.uber.com/uchat/ https://eng.uber.com/uchat/
- xmprt 7y agoThat's built on top of Mattermost which is open source. They do build their own infra instead of using cloud though so that probably uses a big part of it.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoHowever you look at it, Uber and other new so-called tech companies these days spend like there is no tomorrow instead of focusing on the bottom line.
- weberc2 7y agoI'll bite. Why do you suppose it's an emotional decision? And why do you assume they're rewriting things and not writing new code in support of their business model?
- kerng 7y agoBecause they have publicly talked about it: https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-rewrite/ https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-rewrite/
- weberc2 7y agoFrom your own link: > As our business grew, so did our resource utilization and latencies; to keep Schemaless performant, we needed a solution that would execute well at scale. That's the third sentence. Clearly it was not an "emotional decision" and it was in support of their business model (scale).