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What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016

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What it is

Matt Ranney of Uber talks at GOTO Chicago 2016 about what Uber learned from growing past 1,000 production microservices. He covers regrets, sprawl and organizational effects.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Often brought up as an honest account of microservice sprawl, including the fact that nobody at Uber knew exactly how many services existed.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I enjoyed that video”

    Honest, open talk on Uber's service sprawl

    smcl, 2016-10 · Recommendation · in “Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend”

  2. “One of several suggested talks for a lunch and learn”

    kartD, 2017-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Recommended (recent) videos for a Lunch and Learn”

  3. “Here's a collection of some fantastic technical speeches”

    Listed among fantastic technical speeches

    jppope, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?”

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Topics: microservices, uber, architecture, service sprawl, lessons learned

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