What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016
GOTO Conferences
Why leaders watch it
Honest account of what went wrong scaling to a thousand services, with lessons on sprawl, ownership and organizational consequences of technical choices.
Matt Ranney of Uber talks at GOTO Chicago 2016 about what Uber learned from growing past 1,000 production microservices. He covers regrets, sprawl and organizational effects.
Takeaways
- Autonomy at scale creates sprawl and duplication
- Standards and ownership need deliberate design
- Structure choices carry long-term organizational costs
Topics: Org design & scaling, Engineering & technical leadership
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