During the first “Uber Visualization Night” on June 20, 2017, Nicolas Belmonte from Uber’s Data Visualization team gave a nice introduction to the aforementioned deck.gl:
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Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
Susan J. Fowler, whom left Uber after about a year of employment there: I joined Uber as a site reliability engineer (SRE) back in November 2015, and it was a great time to join as an engineer […] After the first couple of weeks of training, I chose to join the team that worked on …
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Crafting Data-Driven Maps
At Uber, we use maps for everything — visualizing millions of geo data points, monitoring road conditions, and advocating for policy change in cities around the world. Over the last few years we have experienced immense growth. As a result, we have many teams across the organization producing map visualizations for a wide range of needs. We …
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth. In this article, we’ll explore some of the drawbacks we found with Postgres and explain the decision to build Schemaless and other backend services on top of MySQL. Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres …
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