Year in Review: 2019 Highlights from the Uber Engineering Blog
To cap off 2019, the Uber Engineering Blog editors present a selection of our most popular articles covering a range of technical topics, from AI to mobile development.
Uber Infrastructure in 2019: Improving Reliability, Driving Customer Satisfaction
In 2019, Uber's Infrastructure team built new services and systems to enable resource savings, efficiency gains, and greater resilience across our technology stack.
Food Discovery with Uber Eats: Using Graph Learning to Power Recommendations
By integrating graph learning techniques with our Uber Eats recommendation system, we created a more seamless and individualized user experience for eaters on our platform.
Conducting Better Business with Uber’s Open Source Orchestration Tool, Cadence
Uber engineers describe Cadence, Uber’s open source workflow orchestration tool, its architecture, and its use in a series of informative presentations.
Improving Pickups with Better Location Accuracy
Uber built beacon to improve vehicle location accuracy on our platform, leading to more seamless rider pickup and dropoff experiences.
Gaining Confidence and Improving Android Developer Workflows as a Software Engineering Intern at Uber
Ankit Agrawal reflects on his internship with Uber Engineering, working on the Developer Experience team to build a feature that would highlight code errors in an IDE.
Best Practices for Unit Testing in React Version 16
Uber ATG Web Platform intern Anat Kleiman shares her advice for testing React version 16 components when altering application logic.
Using GraphQL to Improve Data Hydration in our Customer Care Platform and Beyond
Uber Engineering details how GraphQL integrated into our Customer Care platform, making for more targeted queries and reducing server load.
Science at Uber: Innovating Across Digital and Physical Worlds
Waleed Kadous, Principal Engineer at Uber, enjoys tackling technical challenges that bridge the digital and physical duality of Uber's problem space.
Building a More Seamless Web Booking Flow for Uber
We redesigned Uber's web-based booking flow for riders who prefer a browser over the app, simplifying pickup options and speeding up interactivity.
MoneyCon ’19: Uber Hosts its First FinTech Engineering Conference
Uber's MoneyCon brought together industry leaders to discuss the latest technologies and key learnings in the payments and finance engineering space.
Solving for Urban Air Travel: A Q&A with François Sillion, Director of Uber ATCP
As head of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Paris, Francois Sillion and his team are responsible for supporting the R&D behind Uber Air, our effort to add a third dimension to our platform using flying vehicles.
Setting the Pace: A Q&A with Jennifer Anderson, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber
Jennifer Anderson, a veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies, leads Uber's Product Platform organization, which hosts our core services. In this interview, she describes her organization and the lessons she has learned.
Learnings in Web Development: Design Patterns, Elm, and Progressive Enhancement
Uber's Destination:Web meetup series gives great insight about the most current web building tools and techniques. These three videos from Uber presenters offer tips on a mysterious design pattern, the Elm language, and Progressive Enhancement.
Power On: Accelerating Uber’s Self-Driving Vehicle Development with Data
A key challenge faced by self-driving vehicles comes during interactions with pedestrians. In our development of self-driving vehicles, the Data Engineering and Data Science teams at Uber ATG (Advanced Technologies Group) contribute to the data processing and analysis that help make these interactions safe.
Second Uber Science Symposium: Showcasing Developments in Programming Systems and Tools
On May 3, 2019, Uber’s Programming Systems Team hosted the Programming Systems and Tools Track of the company’s Second Uber Science Symposium, featuring a full day of talks by leading researchers and practitioners in the the field.
Learning on the Go: Engineering Efficiency with Concise Documentation
Uber Technical Writer Shannon Brown offers three tips for creating concise, meaningful documentation.
Build a ‘Hello World!’ Application in 5 Minutes with Fusion.js
In this short tutorial, we show you how to build a Hello World! application using Fusion.js, an open source universal web framework suitable for building interactive web applications.
Uber Case Study: Choosing the Right HDFS File Format for Your Apache Spark...
Uber's Maps Collection and Reporting (MapCARs) team shares best practices when choosing which HDFS file formats are optimal for use with Apache Spark.
Why Financial Planning is Exciting… At Least for a Data Scientist
In this article, Uber’s Marianne Borzic Ducournau discusses why financial planning at Uber presents unique and challenging opportunities for data scientists.
