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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New on the blog today: 'I thought it was so cool that you could combine the ideas behind evolution and use them to automatically design complex things that can then impact the real world.' - @jeffclune , Senior Research Manager, Uber AI Labs
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
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Designed by @Uber 's Office of the CTO, the Engineering Sponsorship and Development Program pairs participants with sponsors and provides an opportunity to hone technical leadership skills. #Mentorship #DiversityInclusion #EngineeringLeadership
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: Uber #AI introduces Ludwig, an #OpenSource , #DeepLearning toolbox built on top of @TensorFlow that allows users to train and test deep learning models without writing code. Read the article: Check out the Ludwig repo:
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2022 Record Breaking News: Uber’s platform handled a new all time peak of 753K concurrent rides and deliveries 🎉🥳 What a way to close out the year!
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
7 years
Uber #OpenSource has released #H3 , a hexagonal geospatial indexing system for geographic data: @github
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
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Eager to explore arm64 on servers, but stuck on an infrastructure that assumes one architecture? That’s where Uber was 18 months ago. In this blog post we explain how we bootstrapped arm64 infrastructure using a relatively new toolchain in town: zig cc.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
3 years
New on our blog today! Members of our engineering team describe how we reduced the code size of Uber’s iOS Rider app by using advanced compiler technologies. read more:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
4 years
Architecting our driver app for Android, which needs to run for extended periods of time in the background, involved a unique idea where Activities and Services were not included in the structural foundations.
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Uber Engineering
5 years
To determine if it made sense to adopt Kotlin for Uber's #Android monorepo, our Mobile Engineering team, in collaboration with @jetbrains , measured #Kotlin build performance at scale across a variety of project structures. Read the article:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
New #UberEng article out on why we ultimately made the switch from @postgresql to @MySQL :
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Uber Engineering
5 years
With the release of version 7.3, @Uber ’s open source visualization tool now supports rendering massive geospatial data sets formatted according to the OGC 3D Tiles community standard.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out now: Uber #AI introduces a new approach for making #NeuralNetworks process images faster & more accurately with #JPEG representations. via Lionel Gueguen @alsrgv @savvyRL & @jasonyo Check out the research: #NeurIPS2018
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: introducing Manifold, Uber's model-agnostic visual debugging tool for #MachineLearning at Uber Read the article: via @lezhili & @gnavvy Learn more about Uber's #DataVisualization team: #DataViz #ML
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
7 years
emilwallner/Screenshot-to-code-in-Keras: A neural network that transforms a screenshot into a static website
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Architect of #keplergl @heshan_cheri : 'when you create something truly awesome, you naturally want to get it out to the world so everybody else can use it. Once you #opensource it, other people can also contribute' Article: Project:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
4 years
New on our blog today! Members of our engineering team introducing generalized approach to microservice architectures, Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture (DOMA). #architecture read more:
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: introducing Fusion.js, Uber's plugin-based, universal #opensource web framework that makes it easy to build lightweight, high-performing apps for the #web . Read the article: Check out the project:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: introducing M3, Uber's #opensource , large-scale metrics platform for #Prometheus Read the article: via @roskilli Check out the repo:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: From milking cows to writing code, @UberEats engineer Benito Sanchez reflects on his journey as a #DACADreamer . #Dreamers #DACA #UberEATS
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New on our blog today: Plug and Play Language Model, introduced by Uber AI Labs, gives NLP practitioners the flexibility to plug in one or more simple attribute models into a large, unconditional language model.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
How #Golang helped us build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, which is for geofence lookups.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
9 years
Announcing the @UberEng open source site, w/ some of our best projects on our public Github: http://t.co/biCfi4xld1
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Uber Visualization partners with @Mapbox to enhance our data visualization tools and grow our open source community.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
7 years
Out today: Uber AI Labs open sources #Pyro , a deep probabilistic programming language: #Python @PyTorch #opensource
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
In early days, @Uber architecture was a monolithic backend app written in #Python that used #Postgres for data persistence. With our current model of microservices and data platforms, we instead use Schemaless, a #database sharding layer built on #MySQL .
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Take a look into uReplicator, @UberEng ’s #opensource solution for replicating #ApacheKafka data in a robust and reliable manner.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
10 years
Recent taxi strikes lead to huge increases in @Uber rider signups in these cities: Paris 460%, London 850%, Barcelona 2700% #UberData
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Uber Engineering
6 years
How we used #Golang to build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, for geofence lookups.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
To detect and prevent fraud, @Uber brings to bear #datascience and #machinelearning , analyzing GPS traces and usage patterns to identify suspicious behavior.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Micro Deploy (μDeploy) is our in-house deployment system that builds, upgrades, and rolls back our services.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Uber systems must be fault-tolerant when it comes to failing intelligently, so we leverage Apache Kafka, an open source distributed messaging platform, which has been industry-tested for delivering high performance at scale.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
New blog article on deck.gl, #UberEng 's #OpenSource software designed for exploring & visualizing #data sets.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
10 years
In 2010 it was just SF. Now, more than 43% of the US population can use @Uber to request a ride. #UberData
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
We’re excited to announce the 0.2 release of Pyro, our #opensource deep probabilistic programming language! Release Notes: Repo:
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: introducing #AresDB , Uber's GPU-powered #OpenSource , real-time #analytics engine. Read the article: Check out the repo:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
7 years
Out today: how we built AthenaX, Uber Engineering's #opensource streaming analytics platform: #SQL
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New video today: @Uber Director of Data Science Franziska Bell discusses how we created data science platforms at Uber, letting employees of all technical skills perform forecasts and analyze data. Watch the full video here: #DataScience #WomenInTech
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New on our blog today: By integrating graph learning techniques with our @UberEats recommendation system, we created a more seamless and individualized user experience for eaters on our platform.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New on our blog today: We built Cyborg, an open source implementation of VectorDrawable for iOS, to more easily implement designs across our apps.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Written in #Haskell , Queryparser is our #opensource tool that consumes a real-time stream of #SQL queries submitted to our data warehouse, analyzes each one, and emits the analysis results to a separate stream. Article: Repo:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings (PDF) - @MIT
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Our Insurance Engineering team extended Kafka’s role in our existing event-driven architecture by using non-blocking request reprocessing and dead letter queues to achieve decoupled, observable error-handling without disrupting real-time traffic.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Fresh out of the @UberEng #OpenSource oven: #Horovod 0.13.0 with @PyTorch support has been released! Repo: Learn more about our distributed deep learning @TensorFlow framework Horovod:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Our fraud prevention team built the Mastermind rules engine to detect highly evolved forms of fraud at large scale in a fraction of a second.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
. @Uber announces the release of the #opensource Autonomous Visualization System, a standard for creating a visual environment based on sensor data from autonomous vehicles, with playback available in multiple formats, including web and video.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
How #Golang helped us build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, for geofence lookups.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
To detect and prevent fraud we brings to bear data science and machine learning, analyzing GPS traces and usage patterns to identify suspicious behavior.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
M3 is an open-source metrics platform for Prometheus, which facilitates scalable and configurable multi-tenant storage for large-scale metrics.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
JVM Profiler, an #OpenSource distributed profiler, enables the seamless collection of JVM performance and resource usage metrics.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
New video today: Zoubin Ghahramani, Head of Uber AI, discusses how we use artificial intelligence techniques to make our platform more efficient for users. Watch the full video here: #ArtificialIntelligence #DataScience #DeepLearning
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Our Insurance Engineering team extended Kafka’s role in our existing event-driven architecture by using non-blocking request reprocessing and dead letter queues (DLQ) to achieve decoupled, observable error-handling without disrupting real-time traffic.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Mark your calendars: Uber Open Summit 2018 is coming this November! We're excited to announce Uber Open, a one-day summit for developers & community leaders advancing open source collaboration & innovation at scale. #uberopensummit @UberEng Learn more:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today! Meet #Queryparser , Uber's #opensource tool (written in #Haskell ) for parsing & analyzing #SQL queries:
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Uber Engineering
5 years
Ludwig is a code-free deep learning toolbox that makes deep learning more accessible to non-experts and enables faster model iteration cycles.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system - @GergelyOrosz
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Here is an approach for making convolutional neural networks smaller, faster, and more accurate all at the same time by hacking libjpeg and leveraging the internal image representations already used by the JPEG image format.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
We introduced a Bayesian neural network architecture that more accurately forecasts time series predictions and uncertainty estimations.
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Uber Engineering
5 years
Autonomous Visualization System (AVS) is a fast, powerful, and #opensource web-based 3D visualization toolkit for building applications from your autonomous and robotics data.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Uber’s highest queries per second #microservice is one that provides geofence lookups. Here’s the story of why we built this service, and how #Golang helped us build and scale it so fast.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
The technical reasoning behind our switch in database technologies, from Postgres to #MySQL .
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Our Insurance Engineering team extended Kafka’s role in our existing event-driven architecture by using non-blocking request reprocessing and dead letter queues (DLQ) to achieve decoupled, observable error-handling without disrupting real-time traffic.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Developed by Uber, Kraken is an open source peer-to-peer Docker registry capable of distributing terabytes of data in seconds.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: learn more about @Uber data scientist @SlawekSmyl 's hybrid Exponential Smoothing-Recurrent #NeuralNetworks (ES-RNN) #forecasting method, winner of the M4 Competition ( @spyrosmakrid ). Read the full article:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
The 2nd half is out! The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part II: The Edge and Beyond #UberEng
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Micro Deploy (μDeploy) is our in-house deployment system that builds, upgrades, and rolls back services.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
Check out these #UberData visualizations by the @UberEng #data #viz team: #UberEng #Uber
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Our Observability team built a robust, scalable metrics and alerting pipeline to detect, mitigate, and notify engineers of issues as they occur.
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Uber Engineering
5 years
Out today: introducing Kraken, Uber's open source peer-to-peer #Docker registry capable of distributing terabytes of data in seconds. Read the announcement: Check out the repo:
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
H3 is our #opensource hierarchical geospatial indexing system that has an easy API for indexing coordinates into a hexagonal, global grid.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
7 years
Uber #OpenSource has released #H3 , a hexagonal geospatial indexing system for geographic data: @github
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
We introduced a Bayesian neural network architecture that more accurately forecasts time series predictions and uncertainty estimations.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
Uber Visualization has partnered with @Mapbox to enhance our #datavisualization tools and grow our #opensource community.
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Uber Engineering
8 years
The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation #UberEng
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Our Observability team built a robust, scalable metrics and alerting pipeline to detect, mitigate, and notify engineers of issues as they occur.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
6 years
How #Golang helped us build and scale our highest queries per second microservice, for geofence lookups.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
Proud sponsor of @Blavity ’s #AfroTech16 conference! Interested in a role at #Uber ? We're hiring:
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Uber Engineering
5 years
New article today: @Uber AI Labs proposes Loss Change Allocation (LCA), a new method that provides a rich window into the neural network training process. #ArtificialIntelligence #NeuralNetworks #ModelPredictions
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
4 years
New on our blog today! Uber built and open sourced Fiber, distributed computing library. To enable users to implement large-scale distributed computation for machine learning applications easily on a computer cluster #AI #MachineLearning #opensource
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Uber Engineering
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What was the technical reasoning behind our switch in database technologies, from Postgres to MySQL?
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Cadence is our #opensource distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine we developed to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
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Uber Engineering
7 years
Uber Engineering is proud to announce the open sourcing of #RIBs , our cross-platform mobile architecture: #mobiledev
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Migrating our Schemaless sharding layer from #Python to #Golang while in production demonstrated that it was possible for us to rewrite the frontend of a massive datastore with zero downtime.
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Uber Engineering
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How #Golang helped us build and scale our #microservice for geofence lookups, which turned out to be our highest queries per second (QPS) service out of the hundreds we run in production.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
3 years
New on our blog today! The engineering team describe Elastic Deep Learning with Horovod on Ray. How it is bringing common infrastructure and standardization to the production machine learning ecosystem. @UberOpenSource #DeepLearning Read more:
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Uber Engineering
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Pyro is our #opensource deep probabilistic language, unifying the best of modern #deeplearning and Bayesian modeling. Its goal is to accelerate research and applications of these techniques, and to make them more accessible to the broader #AI community.
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Uber Engineering
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Uber’s Global Data Warehouse team leveraged Apache Hudi to drastically improve performance of traditional batch ETL pipelines by going incremental, improving business-critical data’s freshness, quality, and completeness. read more:
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Uber Engineering
5 years
New on the blog today: During our 2019 @Uber European Technology Showcase, technical teams across the company discussed how we build products that drive safe and reliable transportation.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
5 years
Uber has embraced Presto, a high performance, distributed SQL query engine, and joined the Presto Foundation. Meet the Uber engineers who contribute to and use Presto on a daily basis.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
4 years
GraphQL is an open source query language for APIs that can interpret the structure of our data sources and delivers only the information needed to resolve an issue, reducing throughput on our Customer Care Platform.
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@UberEng
Uber Engineering
8 years
If you enjoyed part 1 of the #UberEng tech stack, don’t miss out on part 2.
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Uber open sourced JVM Profiler, our distributed profiler, to enable others to seamlessly collect JVM performance and resource usage metrics.
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Take a look into uReplicator, an #opensource solution for replicating Apache Kafka data in a robust and reliable manner.
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Uber Engineering
6 years
Out today: introducing Peloton, Uber's unified resource scheduler for diverse cluster workloads. Read the article: #Architecture #ApacheSpark
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Uber Engineering
5 years
Uber's Observability Applications team sought to introduce alert backtesting—the ability to determine if, and when, a given alert configuration would have gone off in the past, thereby making it easier to predict future alerts.
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