A Brief History of Scaling Uber

Jan 11, 2024 Architecture, Scaling, Microservices, External Writing, Uber

On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. Fast forward to today where Uber is the largest mobility platform in the world, in over 70 countries, 10,500 cities, and 130 million users. Here's the story of the key moments in scaling Uber engineering ...

So, You Want to Move to Microservices?

May 2, 2016 Software Engineering, Microservices, LinkedIn, Uber

As I reflected back on my time at LinkedIn, I put together a brief history of its scaling story. We had done the (now) classic migration from monolith to microservices. Just like oh I dunno, Amazon, Google, eBay, Twitter, Netflix, and my current employer Uber (to name a few). And why not? Mic...