Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Why Uber Started Over. Uber is based on a simple concept: push a button, get a ride. What started as a way to request premium black cars now offers a range of products, coordinating millions of rides per day across … The post Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. Someone can do no work by just… not working. How does negative work happen? One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me.

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The Polyglot Developer

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Continuing down the road of Golang development I thought it would be a cool learning example to develop a URL shortener application similar to that of TinyURL or Bitly. I think these are great examples because not only does it teach you how to develop a RESTful API that uses a datasource, but it also challenges you to think critically when it comes to the algorithms.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It starts with a voice. Your voice. Your ideas. Your opinions. Your thoughts. Your learnings. You have something you’re interested in, something you want to communicate to others. So you write. Or you give a presentation. Or you record a screencast. You do these things more and more, sharing what you learn and what you think. Over time, as you get more comfortable, you learn how to improve.

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Uber Engineering

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Why Uber Started Over. Uber is based on a simple concept: push a button, get a ride. What started as a way to request premium black cars now offers a range of products, coordinating millions of rides per day across … The post Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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