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A collection of recent articles from blogs that I follow.
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Engineering the Future of Maps at Uber
Maps are at the heart of Uber’s services and core to the experience for millions of users. Our cutting-edge cartography makes it easy for drivers to locate passengers, delivery people to quickly transport meals via Uber Eats, and JUMP users … The post Engineering the Future of Maps at Uber...
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The Magic of Generating an Xcode Project
Planet Earth vs. Jupiter. There is the same order of magnitude between the ratio of these two planets and the amount of code that defined…
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The Global Digital Marketplace Programme: Moving into alpha
GDS currently works with five partner countries across the world to help them design out corruption through user-centred approaches to procurement. This blog showcases the work from the initial alpha workshops and what’s next for the programme.
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Building the Future of Mobility from the Pacific Northwest: Meet the Uber Seattle Tech Team
Uber is changing the way cities move globally through our transportation and mobility solutions. Located blocks from the iconic Pike Place Market with views over Puget Sound, the Uber Seattle office, home to nearly 500 employees, furthers our core business … The post Building the Future of...
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Tips for Engineering a Company Rebrand
Rebranding your company can be fun, but people rarely talk about the engineering work needed to bring a new design to life. Here are a few lessons the engineering team learned during Gusto’s most recent rebrand.
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Always Judge a Book by it’s Cover
A weekend project that took a a couple of weekends. Weird books & weird covers.
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Can You Solve This Rather Pedestrian Puzzle?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those of you who want something bite-size and the Riddler Classic for those of you in the slow-puzzle...
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Building a Backtesting Service to Measure Model Performance at Uber-scale
With operations in over 700 cities worldwide and gross bookings of over $16 billion in Q3 2019 alone, Uber leverages forecast models to ensure accurate financial planning and budget management. These models, derived from data science practices and platformed for … The post Building a...
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Do Authors Write Where They Know?
Examining how far authors set their books from where they’ve lived.
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Counting Calories: How We Improved the Performance and Developer Experience of UberEats.com
At Uber Eats, we want ordering the food you crave at the touch of a button to be as easy as possible, whether on desktop or mobile. That’s why our engineering team spends a lot of time thinking about, building, … The post Counting Calories: How We Improved the Performance and Developer...
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Docker Donates the cnab-to-oci Library to cnab.io
Docker is proud and happy to announce the donation of our cnab-to-oci library to the CNAB project 🎉. This project was created last year after Microsoft and Docker moved the CNAB specification to the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation. At that time, the CNAB specification repository...
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Join us for a workshop introducing our guidance on managing costs in the cloud
We’ve published new cloud guidance and we’re running a cross-government workshop in April to talk about all of our recent cloud work.