uberengineer

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   by uberengineer 9y ago

   Completely agree that not everything is sunshine and happiness at Uber. The quality is highly variable across the company, but my observation has been that this is a feature, not a bug. Some systems need to be built very well such as softwa
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   by uberengineer 9y ago

   Lots of reasons such as performance, type safety, static analysis, etc. NodeJS worked well when we were smaller, but it's not uncommon to work in code you didn't write and Golang and Java are languages where the compiler helps you
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   by uberengineer 9y ago

   While I can't speak for mobile rewrites, many systems at Uber have been rewritten several times as the business needs have changed and we've grown in scale. With each iteration the systems become more general and support a greater
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   by uberengineer 9y ago

   Oh, it goes well beyond retries. You have issues like unpredictable latencies and lost network connectivity. A feature that works great when RTT is 400ms may require an entirely different approach when RTT is 30000ms. There are also issues