@GergelyOrosz: Since this tweet, Uber has had overall fewer services across the company, fwiw. That is, in 2026, Uber has fewer servic…
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Gergely Orosz reveals that Uber now operates fewer microservices in 2026 than it did in 2020, continuing the industry shift toward well-sized "macroservices" to reduce maintenance overhead. More details will come in an upcoming podcast with Uber engineer Uday Kiran Medisetty.
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Since this tweet, Uber has had overall fewer services across the company, fwiw.
That is, in 2026, Uber has fewer services / microservices than they did in 2020
More details to come in a podcast with Uday Kiran Medisetty, DE at the company, in ~2 weeks’ time
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz): For the record, at Uber, we’re moving many of our microservices to what @copyconstruct calls macroservices (wells-sized services).
Exactly b/c testing and maintaining thousands of microservices is not only hard - it can cause more trouble long-term than it solves the short-term.
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