Blog posts about General Engineering

Uber’s backend is an exemplar of microservice architecture. Each microservice is a small, individually deployable pro...

Introduction Each day, Uber moves millions of people around the world and delivers tens of millions of food and groce...

Background Apache Kafka® is widely used across Uber’s multiple business lines. Take the example of an Uber ride: When...

Scaling our data infrastructure with lower hardware costs while maintaining high performance and service reliability ...

  Introduction The Fulfillment Platform is a foundational Uber domain that enables the rapid scaling of new verticals...

Uber recently launched a new capability: Ads on UberEats. With this new ability came new challenges that needed to be...

At Uber, real-time mobile analytics events—generated by button taps, page views, and more—form the backbone of the mo...

Problem Uber deploys a few storage technologies to store business data based on their application model. One such tec...

Introduction Uber’s GSS (Global Scaled Solutions) team runs scaled programs for diverse products and businesses, incl...

Uber has one of the largest deployments of Apache Kafka in the world, processing trillions of messages and multiple p...

Background Uber is committed to providing reliable services to customers across our global markets. To achieve this, ...

Introduction Our engineers have the responsibility of ensuring a consistent and positive experience for our riders, d...

Introduction  Content quality is critical to the support experienced by Uber’s customers. Consider an Eater who reach...

With Uber’s business growth and the fast adoption of big data and AI, Big Data scaled to become our most costly infra...

As Uber’s business has expanded, the underlying pool of data that powers it has grown exponentially, and thus ever mo...

Introduction Big data is at the core of Uber’s business. We continue to innovate and provide better experiences for o...

Uber delivers efficient and reliable transportation across the global marketplace, which is powered by hundreds of se...

For a company of our size and scale, robust, accurate, and compliant accounting and analytics are a necessity, ensuri...