Brief History of Scaling Uber

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author.

On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when the idea for Uber was born. How great would it be if you could "push a button and get a ride?"

Fast forward to today where Uber is the largest mobility platform in the world. It operates in over 70 countries and 10,500 cities. Uber Eats is the largest food delivery platform ex-China in the world. It operates across 45 countries. We connect millions of driver-partners and merchants with over 130 million customers. We offer dozens of services to go anywhere or get anything. We handle billions of database transactions and millions of concurrent users across dozens of apps and thousands of backend services.