Introduction Data is at the core of Uber. It helps us provide a frictionless app experience and develop the right set of...
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Control Tower, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and More (October 9, 2023)
As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in...
From Light to Dark: The Story Behind Dark Mode on the Android Uber App
Introduction Dark mode was natively supported by the release of Android Q. It has started to become a popular feature si...
Amazon DataZone Now Generally Available – Collaborate on Data Projects across Organizational Boundaries
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon DataZone, a new data management service to catalog, discover,...
AWS ExecLeaders Data and Generative AI Day: Fueling Business Growth with Data and Generative AI
Join us on Thursday, October 5, 2023, for a free-to-attend online event, Data and Generative AI Day. AWS will stream the...
New – Amazon EC2 C7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Compute Optimized Workloads
We launched the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances in February 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processo...
AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023
Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own ci...
Spark Analysers: Catching Anti-Patterns In Spark Apps
Introduction Apache Spark™ is a widely used open source distributed computing engine. It is one of the main components o...
Identifying Green Vehicles for a Zero-Emission Future
Introduction Uber has made a public commitment to phase out carbon emissions in the United States, Canada, and Europe by...
Risk Entity Watch – Using Anomaly Detection to Fight Fraud
Background At its core, Uber operates marketplaces. With our Rides business, the two sides of the marketplace are driver...