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Uber Engineering

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Uber Engineering documents how the company builds and operates the technology behind its global ride-sharing and delivery platforms. Articles cover real-time systems, geospatial indexing, large-scale data processing, machine learning for ETAs and pricing, and the infrastructure serving millions of trips daily.

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UberMar 11, 2026

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
1 min
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
1 min
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
UberFeb 26, 2026

Superuser Gateway: Guardrails for Privileged Command Execution

Learn how Uber’s new Superuser Guardrails turn risky manual commands into peer-reviewed, machine-validated changes, and how to apply this pattern to your own...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberFeb 19, 2026

Database Federation: Decentralized and ACL-Compliant Hive™ Databases

Uber’s 10PB, 16K-dataset Hive monolith for the Delivery business had huge limitations. See how we transformed it into a secure, scalable, decentralized...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberFeb 12, 2026

Uber’s Rate Limiting System

Discover how Uber built and automated a global rate-limiting system that protects millions of RPCs per second, improving reliability, reducing latency, and...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberFeb 5, 2026

Introducing uFowarder: The Consumer Proxy for Kafka Async Queuing

Uber processes trillions of Kafka messages per day on a push-based consumer proxy in real time. Read this blog to learn about the thinking behind open source...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberJan 29, 2026

How Uber Scaled Data Replication to Move Petabytes Every Day

Uber prioritizes a reliable data lake, which is distributed across on-premise and cloud environments. This multi-region setup presents challenges for ensuring...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberJan 16, 2026

Apache Hudi™ at Uber: Engineering for Trillion-Record-Scale Data Lake Operations

Check out this deep dive into how Uber runs Apache Hudi™ at extreme scale—handling trillions of records, petabytes of data, and high-concurrency table services...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberJan 13, 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...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberJan 6, 2026

From Monitoring to Observability: Our Ultra-Marathon to a Cloud-Native Platform

Managing a global corporate network at Uber’s scale can feel a bit like running an ultra-marathon. There are long stretches of smooth sailing, but you’re...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 18, 2025

Powering Billion-Scale Vector Search with OpenSearch

Uber powers billion-scale vector search with OpenSearch. Discover the innovative optimizations we designed to boost search efficiency, scalability, and...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 16, 2025

How Uber Indexes Streaming Data with Pull-Based Ingestion in OpenSearch™

Discover how Uber uses OpenSearch™’s streaming ingestion architecture for powerful search, and learn about our contributions to a pull-based ingestion...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 15, 2025

How Uber, OCI™, and Ampere® Co-Optimized OCI AmpereOne® M A4 Compute

By co-designing the new OCI™ AmpereOne-M® A4 instances, Uber has moved beyond adapting to existing hardware and is now shaping the next generation of compute,...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 11, 2025

From Batch to Streaming: Accelerating Data Freshness in Uber’s Data Lake

Learn how Uber moved from batch to streaming ingestion with IngestionNext, reducing data latency and unlocking real-time analytics across its petabyte-scale...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 9, 2025

Blazing Fast OLAP on Uber’s Inventory and Catalog Data with Apache Pinot™

Discover how Uber used Apache Pinot™ to build a real-time index on its massive inventory of billions of items to power search use cases, internal tools, and...

InfrastructureScale
1 min
UberDec 4, 2025

Improving MySQL® Cluster Uptime: Making MGR Viable at Scale

Dive into the implementation, automation and failover logic that made MySQL® Group Replication viable at Uber scale.

InfrastructureScale
1 min