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CORBA never scaled to the level that Uber needs to. Pre-pandemic, you’re talking hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second globally. Also you nev
by plank_time 5y ago
CORBA never scaled to the level that Uber needs to. Pre-pandemic, you’re talking hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second globally. Also you never saw a CORBA project with thousands of engineers checking in code multiple times a day. All these are factors too.
People on HN always think “all it’s doing is matching a rider with a driver, why is it so complicated? I can write it in a weekend!” Sure, but it won’t scale.
- Aeolun 5y agoI doubt they have millions of driver to rider matching requests per second. A lot of people use Uber, but they don’t need a ride every second.
- plank_time 5y agoAt peak I can see it being low single digit millions per second. A single client will do more than 1 rps, there’s a lot going on per client.