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UberCompany

Ride-hailing, delivery and freight platform

7 things

JaegerSoftware

liked

At Uber Engineering, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016

Evolving distributed tracing at Uber Engineering

uber.com ↗·2017-02-02Wrong?

MySQLSoftware

liked

We are generally quite happy with MySQL, and we may have more blog articles in the future explaining some of its more advanced uses at Uber.

Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL

uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?

ZipkinSoftware

uses

The early Jaeger architecture still relied on Zipkin UI and Zipkin storage format.

Evolving distributed tracing at Uber Engineering

uber.com ↗·2017-02-02Wrong?

GoSoftware Google

uses

We reimplemented the collectors in Go to accept TChannel traffic and store it in Cassandra in the binary format compatible with Zipkin.

Evolving distributed tracing at Uber Engineering

uber.com ↗·2017-02-02Wrong?

PythonSoftware

uses

The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence.

Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL

uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?

CassandraSoftware

uses

or, in some specialized cases, NoSQL databases like Cassandra.

Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL

uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?

PostgreSQLSoftware

disliked

Postgres served us well in the early days of Uber, but we ran into significant problems scaling Postgres with our growth.

Why Uber Engineering switched from Postgres to MySQL

uber.com ↗·2016-07-26Wrong?

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