Uber Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2018

From driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data. Data powers Uber’s global marketplace, enabling more reliable and seamless user experiences across our products for riders, … The post Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Polyglot Developer

AUGUST 3, 2018

When it comes to mobile development, Android has always been a pain to deal with. While iOS has a terrible deployment to production experience, Android has a terrible installation and configuration experience. I’ve been developing Android applications since before hybrid web and cross-platform native were a thing and up until recently, the Android installation experience has been unchanged.

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SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 3, 2018

Dylan ( who kindly wrote up the contents of this blog for me ) was modifying the tests for Active Directory Login activities. As Dylan and I reviewed the changes a specific behavior involving Active Directory Group Logins caught our attention. Imagine you have a group on your domain [CONTOSOgroup] which has a member [CONTOSOuser], and the [CONTOSOgroup] has login permissions to a SQL Server instance.

Servers 40

Servers Software Engineering Cache Engineering 40

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Everything starts with Doug Engelbart — Jane Metcalfe. It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. — Doug Engelbart ( Valley of Genius ). ARPA funded the demo at a cost of $1 million.

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