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The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Post by scrollaway »

minimaxir wrote: post #4
wildmusings wrote: post #3

In fairness, the title of the original article is in ALL CAPS (due to text-transform: uppercase), so don't assume malice on the OP's part.

In Firefox, copypasting text-transform:uppercased text retains its pre-transform case. I'm a little sad that feature isn't in Chrome.

Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Post by mandeepj »

stickfigure wrote: post #7

I've been sitting on the sidelines of the "Uber is great!" vs "Uber are a bunch of dicks!" war for quite some time now. I always figure every company of reasonable size contains elements of both. But geezus... this was posted with the title in all caps "THE UBER ENGINEERING TECH STACK, PART I: THE FOUNDATION". Presumably by someone at Uber. Is their corporate culture that arrogant?

I know all caps is a hindrance in reading but I will focus on their tech stack and try to learn the good stuff

Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Post by wildmusings »

Quite an intricate architecture. I can't help but wonder if all of the complexity and different moving parts are worth it. Does it really make more sense than throwing more resources at a monolithic web service? Clearly the folks at Uber think it does, and they've obviously thought about the problem more than me, but I'd love to understand the reasoning.

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Post by cynicalkane »

mikecke wrote: post #13

For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting. text-transform: uppercase;

What are you talking about? If you copy-paste the title you get all caps.

Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Post by mikecke »

cynicalkane wrote: post #16
mikecke wrote: post #13

For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting. text-transform: uppercase;

What are you talking about? If you copy-paste the title you get all caps.

Oops, I didn't know the behavior persists.

Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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cynicalkane wrote: post #16
mikecke wrote: post #13

For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting. text-transform: uppercase;

What are you talking about? If you copy-paste the title you get all caps.

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Re: The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation

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Post by thesimpsons1022 »

cynicalkane wrote: post #16
mikecke wrote: post #13

For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting. text-transform: uppercase;

What are you talking about? If you copy-paste the title you get all caps.

different for chrome and firefox :)
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