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Paarth Chothani, Chirag Agrawal
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Deepanshu Mehndiratta, Alok Srivastava, Vibhor Dhingra, Ankit Srivastava
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Deepanshu Mehndiratta, Alok Srivastava, Shivam Jindal, Ankit Srivastava
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Nimish Sheth, Daniel Cai, Saurabh Kathpalia, Vishnu Akhilesh Venkataraman, Colin Schoen
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Egor Grishechko, Srikar Paruchuru
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Riya Tyagi, Ramnik Jain, Padma Chitturi
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Pankaj Mohapatra, Arun Mahadeva Iyer, Balajee Nagasubramaniam, Prashant Wason, Alon Levy
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Nimish Sheth, Manas Kelshikar, Dhirendra Kumar Singh, Rajan Jana, Wasim Raza
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Prakhar Agarwal, Avinash Varma Sagi, Abhay Singh Chauhan, Kranthi Reddy, Divya Rai
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The article provides essential guidelines for drivers operating at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) while using the Uber app.
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Uber’s Rate Limiting System details the evolution of Uber's approach to managing service overload through a unified rate-limiting architecture.
Chien-Chih Liao, Rahul Gutal, Smit Sheth, Ying Jiang
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This article introduces uForwarder, Uber's open-source push-based consumer proxy for Apache Kafka's async queuing system.
Zhifeng Chen, Yang Yang, Haifeng Chen
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This article details how Uber optimized Apache Hadoop's Distcp (Distributed Copy) tool to scale their data replication infrastructure from handling 250 TB to petabytes of daily data movement.
Abhay Yadav, Radhika Patwari, Sanjay Sundaresan
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This article details how Uber built and scaled Apache Hudi to power one of the world's largest data lakes, managing 19,500 datasets with trillions of records across a multi-hundred-petabyte reposit...
Prashant Wason, Balajee Nagasubramaniam, Surya Prasanna Kumar Yalla, Meenal Binwade, Xinli Shang, Jack Song
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This article details Uber's multi-year evolution from static, quota-based rate limiting to an intelligent, priority-aware load management system for their distributed databases (Docstore and Schema...
Dhyanam Vaidya, Prathamesh Deshpande, Mike Ma, Chaitanya Yalamanchili
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Uber Engineering details their migration from a legacy monolithic monitoring system to a modern, cloud-native observability platform for their corporate network infrastructure.
Razvan Cicu, Giovanni Pepe
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The article discusses Uber's transition from traditional keyword-based search using Apache Lucene to implementing semantic vector search with Amazon OpenSearch.
Hao Sun, Jiasen Xu, Smit Patel, Anand Kotriwal, Xu Zhang
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This article discusses how Uber utilizes a pull-based ingestion model in OpenSearch™ to effectively index streaming data.
Yupeng Fu, Varun Bharadwaj, Shuyi Zhang, Xu Xiong, Michael Froh
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The article discusses Uber's collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Ampere Computing to optimize the OCI AmpereOne M A4 Compute instances.
Vikrant Soman, Dan Royal, Nav Kankani, Kamran Zargahi
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This article discusses Uber's transition from batch to streaming data ingestion using Apache Flink, which significantly enhances data freshness and operational efficiency.
Xinli Shang, Peter Huang, Jing Li, Jing Zhao, Jack Song
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This article discusses Uber's implementation of Apache Pinot to manage and analyze its extensive inventory and catalog data efficiently.
Suraj Modi, Ankit Sultana, Tarun Mavani
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This article discusses how Uber improved MySQL cluster uptime by adopting MySQL Group Replication (MGR) at scale.
This article discusses the improvements made to MySQL cluster uptime at Uber through the implementation of MySQL Group Replication (MGR).
The article discusses the evolution and scaling of Uber's Delivery Search Platform, emphasizing the transition from traditional lexical search to a semantic search model that enhances user experien...
Divya Nagar, Zheng Liu, Jiasen Xu, Bo Ling, Haoyang Chen
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Ceilometer is Uber's adaptive benchmarking framework designed to enhance the performance and reliability of their infrastructure by automating benchmarking processes and providing actionable insigh...