Uber invested heavily in tooling that makes creating and deploying a new service take about 30 minutes. This was before they invested in making it as easy to s

Uber invested heavily in tooling that makes creating and deploying a new service take about 30 minutes. This was before they invested in making it as easy to share code. If you combine that with fast hiring and a big pressure to ship, it makes sense to solve every problem with a new service that calls a few others.