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Reliability at Scale: Engineering an Uneventful New Year’s Eve

November 30, 2017 / Global
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Uber Engineering built our “Uber World View” tool to track demand across our global markets.
Figure 2: Uber Engineering maintains several dashboards that help us gauge the health of our services. These particularly come in handy during our preparations for high traffic events like New Year’s Eve and Halloween.
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Katie Tezapsidis (L) and Matt Schallert (R), members of Uber Engineering’s Observability team, discuss new tools and techniques for making monitoring system health more efficient.
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Carissa Blossom is a site reliability engineer on the Uber Marketplace team.
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Tom Croucher is a staff software engineer on Uber’s Site Reliability Engineering team, responsible for improving and maintaining reliability across our services.
Molly Vorwerck

Molly Vorwerck

Molly Vorwerck is the Eng Blog Lead and a senior program manager on Uber's Tech Brand Team, responsible for overseeing the company's technical narratives and content production. In a previous life, Molly worked in journalism and public relations. In her spare time, she enjoys scouring record stores for Elvis Presley records, reading and writing fiction, and watching The Great British Baking Show.

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