Uber's geospatial data is increasing exponentially as the company grows. As a result, its big data systems must also grow in scalability, reliability, and performance to support business decisions, user recommendations, and experiments for geospatial data. Zhenxiao Luo and Wei Yan explain how Uber runs geospatial analysis efficiently in its big data systems, including Hadoop, Hive, and Presto.

Leading companies are integrating operations and analytics to make real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. There are many aspects to digital transformation, but the timely delivery of actionable data is both a key enabler and an obstacle. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses.

M. C. Srivas covers the technologies underpinning the big data architecture at Uber and explores some of the real-time problems Uber needs to solve to make ride sharing as smooth and ubiquitous as running water, explaining how they are related to real-time big data analytics.

The industry has forgotten that no matter how many clouds we use, software runs on hardwareand the abstraction gap is growing. Andrey Sibiryov explores the relationship between modern computers and wishful thinking in software engineering and performance and explains why being mindful about hardware is important.

Uber relies on making data-driven decisions at every level, and most of these decisions can benefit from faster data processing. Vinoth Chandar and Prasanna Rajaperumal introduce Hoodie, a newly open sourced system at Uber that adds new incremental processing primitives to existing Hadoop technologies to provide near-real-time data at 10x reduced cost.

Peng Du and Randy Wei offer an overview of Ubers data science workbench, which provides a central platform for data scientists to perform interactive data analysis through notebooks, share and collaborate on scripts, and publish results to dashboards and is seamlessly integrated with other Uber services, providing convenient features such as task scheduling, model publishing, and job monitoring.