On: Uber and Lyft’s new road: Fewer drivers, thrifty r...

[nathanvanfleet]

Surely you don't think a modern and complex app requires just a single API endpoint that triggers once a minute? And that it's that simple a thing for the driver/ passenger?

[onlyrealcuzzo → nathanvanfleet]

Surely you don't think there's another endpoint that's getting hit an order of magnitude more to change the point?

Multiply by 3 for redundancy & availability. Multiply by 3 for other endpoints. You're not even 10x...

And this was not Uber as it exists. This is a simplified version of Uber that gives the user a nearly equal experience.