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

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Matt Ranney explains what Uber learned running a thousand microservices: polyglot sprawl, tracing difficulties, outages caused by politics and the hidden cost of so many teams; candid, concrete lessons from its chief systems architect.

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Matt Ranney on what went wrong and right as Uber grew past 1,000 microservices: sprawl, tracing, languages and team structure.

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Part of 2018 • Top 10, 2019 • Top 10, GOTO Chicago 2016

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