MAY 4, 2026

How Uber Conquered Database Overload: The Journey from Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management

🧠 Overload in stateful databases isn’t one-dimensional. See how we built an intelligent load manager that sheds smarter, adapts to diverse signals, and stays...

Databases Distributed Systems

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How Uber Built an Agentic System to Automate Design Specs in Minutes

Uber is setting a new standard for design systems by using the Figma Console MCP to shatter the manual documentation bottleneck. By letting AI agents pull...

InfrastructureScale

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UberMar 10, 2026

Transforming Ads Personalization with Sequential Modeling and Hetero-MMoE at Uber

Learn how we rebuilt our Ads personalization model with Transformer-based sequential encoders and HeteroMoE to better capture user intent, boost targeting...

InfrastructureScale

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UberMar 5, 2026

Building High Throughput Payment Account Processing

Uber’s Payment Account Batch Processing system handles over 30 financial update operations per second for hot accounts with sub-second batching and strict...

InfrastructureScale

1 min