Peloton should make a framework called Uber in response.
The term "peloton" obviously predates the company of the same name...
Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
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Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#32Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who had to take an Uber after they switched away from Google Maps and onto their in-house half-baked mapping/navigation solution knows this is a huge problem. I'm assuming like all mapping solutions it'll get better but for now, it's just full of bad routes, over-optimizing turns, out-of-date detours (for MONTHS!) and non-sensical U-turns
Not to defend Uber/NIH syndrome, but if Google wanted to specifically charge Uber more for maps because of usage, could they legally do that? Maybe the rewrites are risk management?
Google increased maps cost for everybody though, not just Uber.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/google-maps-apis-new-...
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#34Is it just me or is every big release from Uber just a custom rewrite of an existing technology? It seems their engineering department has a large not-invented-here attitude. I could be wrong - they're certainly large enough to have custom requirements that aren't met with what's on the market but the pattern is just becoming suspect.
Their urban gps locating technology based off satellite masking is pretty unique as far as I know.
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who had to take an Uber after they switched away from Google Maps and onto their in-house half-baked mapping/navigation solution knows this is a huge problem. I'm assuming like all mapping solutions it'll get better but for now, it's just full of bad routes, over-optimizing turns, out-of-date detours (for MONTHS!) and non-sensical U-turns
Not to defend Uber/NIH syndrome, but if Google wanted to specifically charge Uber more for maps because of usage, could they legally do that? Maybe the rewrites are risk management?
You've hit the nail on the head. Uber can't risk being one management decision from Google away from shutting down.
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#36Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...
...and peloton, CMU's NVMe-first db https://pelotondb.io/
lol "Latest development updates"
> Added notice that the project is dead
https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153...
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#37Would people use open source stuff from a morally questionable company? Especially when its just a re-write of existing technology posted to a different github repo?
EDIT People get so up in arms about Google and Microsoft working with China and the military, but Uber has done some horrendous stuff on their own. Just curious where people think the line is OK to be.
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone who had to take an Uber after they switched away from Google Maps and onto their in-house half-baked mapping/navigation solution knows this is a huge problem. I'm assuming like all mapping solutions it'll get better but for now, it's just full of bad routes, over-optimizing turns, out-of-date detours (for MONTHS!) and non-sensical U-turns
Not to defend Uber/NIH syndrome, but if Google wanted to specifically charge Uber more for maps because of usage, could they legally do that? Maybe the rewrites are risk management?
They could just use a third-party (and at their scale, they can definitely negotiate a custom deal where they feed back usage data to improve the third-party’s service) or even use open source solutions like OpenStreetMaps. Even the latter (with the overhead of hosting it themselves) makes total sense at their scale.
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to defend Uber/NIH syndrome, but if Google wanted to specifically charge Uber more for maps because of usage, could they legally do that? Maybe the rewrites are risk management?
You've hit the nail on the head. Uber can't risk being one management decision from Google away from shutting down.
Were they not recently embroiled in a lawsuit, too?
Re: Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler
#40Would people use open source stuff from a morally questionable company? Especially when its just a re-write of existing technology posted to a different github repo? EDIT People get so up in arms about Google and Microsoft working with China and the military, but Uber has done some horrendous stuff on their own. Just curious where people think the line is OK to be.
React and Angular are quite popular.