With Uber’s business growth and the fast adoption of big data and AI, Big Data scaled to become our most costly infrastructure platform. To reduce operational expenses, we developed a holistic framework with 3 pillars: platform efficiency, supply, and demand …
Zheng Shao
Zheng Shao is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Uber. He tech-leads the overall Infra cost efficiency effort with a focus on Big Data cost efficiency. He is also an Apache Hadoop PMC member, and an Emeritus Apache Hive PMC member.
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Cost-Efficient Open Source Big Data Platform at Uber
As Uber’s business has expanded, the underlying pool of data that powers it has grown exponentially, and thus ever more expensive to process. When Big Data rose to become one of our largest operational expenses, we began an initiative to …
Challenges and Opportunities to Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Uber’s Big Data
Introduction
Big data is at the core of Uber’s business. We continue to innovate and provide better experiences for our earners, riders, and eaters by leveraging big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence technology. As a result, over the last …
