Uber Open is a one-day summit for developers and community leaders advancing open source collaboration and innovation at scale. Featuring over 15 talks and workshops delivered by the technologists building and using some of Uber’s most popular open source projects, Uber Open will showcase how these technologies are driving the future of data visualization, artificial intelligence, site reliability, and more. RSVP and more information here: Uber Open 2018.
In order to build a better version of real-time surge pricing, Uber decided to get rid of its geofences and create an algorithm that uses a global, dynamically aggregating hexagon grid. In this talk, we will tell the story of why Uber created this global hexagon grid and how the grid works.
