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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GOTO Conferences

Topic

microservices at scale

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Joking aside I enjoyed that video ( [VIDEO] - for those who didn't see it), the presenter was pretty honest and way more open than I expected. I'm just so curious how those services break down - if it's genuinely on the "lstrip as a …

• Little drunk so bear with me :) Rich Hickey: Clojure concurrency[ [LINK] ] Keynote - Rust: confident, productive systems programming by Aaron Turon [ [LINK] ] RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien [ [LINK] ] Microservices at Netflix Scale: …

• 1) Do not attempt to live code. change your code via version control, build small videos, copy and paste... whatever you do... do not try and live code 2) Read "The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs" ... its not really about Steve Jobs so much …