Exclusively using computed columns, and never directly querying the JSON does have the advantage of making it impossible to accidentally write a unindexed query.
Requiring that no service is depended on by two services is nonsense.
You absolutely want the same identity service behind all of your services that rely on an identity concept (and no, you can't just say a gateway should be the only thing talking to an identity service - there are real downstream uses cases such as when identity gets managed).
Similarly there's no reason to have multiple image hosting services. It's fine for two different frontends to use the same one. (And don't just say image hosting should be done in the cloud --- that's just a microservice running elsewhere)
Same for audit logging, outbound email or webhooks, acl systems (can you imagine if google docs, sheets, etc all had distinct permissions systems)
Yeah even further, does that mean that SAAS like S3 shouldn't exist because it has multiple users?
I guess one possible solve would be to separate shared services into separate private deployments. Every upstream service gets its own imagine hosting service. Updates can roll out independently. I guess that would solve the blast radius/single source of failure problems but that seems really extreme.
The trick is to have your gateway handle authn, and then proxy authz data upstream so those services can decide how to handle it without needing to make a second call to the identity service.
I agree with you. Its interesting when I look at the examples you provide, that they are all non-domain services, so perhaps that is what codifies a potential rule.
Realistically all but the largest sites are going to contract out age verification to third parties. There will probably be verification companies that will have a wide range of verifications.
> It uses LiveRamp's clean room technology, which lets companies aggregate their data in a privacy-safe environment, without sharing or seeing each other's raw or personally identifiable customer information.
> A hotel brand could use Uber Intelligence to help identify which restaurants or entertainment venues it might want to partner with for its loyalty program, for example.
Not much details on that "Clean room" but it sounds like the third parties get an environment where they can join their data to ubers and then run aggregate queries, but not actually see individual customer records. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Consider what will happen every time there is a trade-off to be made between making/keeping the data more useful to the companies involved, and actually upholding the anonymity of the data subjects.
Anonymization is nearly impossible to get right even when you're trying really hard, and this is more likely to be a fig leaf to be able to do things that are illegal by sufficiently obfuscating them.
I hope that if EU customer data is included in this, the EU will have the balls to actually enforce GDPR. Uber is one of the few tech company cases where 2-4% of overall revenue would actually hurt, rather than being a small "tax" on the extra profit made through the illegal use of data.
Whenever I see "President" as a corporate title, I think "over inflated sales title to make clients feel like they are being taken serious and talking to actual leadership". I've seen "presidents" reporting to "vice-presidents"!
Whether the title is president, EVP, or SVP, I find it almost shocking that people here are surprised that McDonalds has a very senior person in charge of the Coca-Cola relationship. Yes, title inflation happens at a lot of companies, but I'm willing to cut a lot of slack when you get to $1B revenue or leading responsibility for a major product area.
Yes, I flipped it. Duh. Obviously the two companies are important partners. I imagine there is a pretty senior person on the McDonalds side who has primary responsibility for the partnership.
Also it says his org deals with 100 markets globally. McDonalds isn't the same company in every country, it's basically dealing with 100 different clients with vastly disparate needs, regulations, supply chains etc.
Also possibly some of their sub-clients. McDonald's uses franchise model. So ensuring things are correct for those too. There is something like 38 thousand restaurants. With varying supply chains, probably in some countries multiple.
Yea, after the syrup is remixed it's estimated that McD's sells hundreds of millions of gallons of Coke products a year. It's def something you have a dedicated executive team to make sure everything is working smoothly.
I read that the syrup is stored in these special tanks, and when it's mixed with the carbonated water, it comes out as the best tasting, freshest Coca-Cola you can get. It's always tasted amazing at McDonald's. Almost like bottled Coke.
Supposedly McDonald’s is the only business that gets the syrup distributed in metal kegs. Everyone else gets the plastic bags, which could lead to some taste difference.
I am pretty sure I could blind taste test canned vs bottled soda.
AFAIK they are completely phased out in the soda industry (including McDs). They are very popular in the home beer brewing community because they are easy to clean and the right size for your typical homebrew batch (20 litres). They've become difficult to obtain in recent years because they are not being used in industry any more so there's no secondary market.
Some players are making them new, but they are quite expensive. I used to have a couple of regular beer kegs on "long term loan" from Heineken because I was not able to source cornys for cheap.
Definitely depends on the store in my experience (Aus), I think some may not maintain their machines as frequently/well, or maybe even deliberately watered down. Glass bottle Coke is the best coke imo.
I assume no sarcasm either whether or not you completely approve of the business. There must be a very significant team associated with a global business at that scale.
To go on a tangent: lots of people even like to think back nostalgically to the time when bankers were at the golf course by 3pm. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-6-3_Rule
(I don't agree, but it's a popular enough sentiment.)
This is a common convention in the financial sector and several others but not necessarily all industries. Companies that produce actual goods often have way less title inflation than others.
Up until Van Buren v. United States in 2020, ToS violations were sometimes prosecuted as unauthorized access under the CFAA. I suspect there are other jurisdictions that still do the equivalent to that.
PCs are one of the few things we build ourselves because it's one of the few goods that have standardized and commoditized parts.
If there was a large degree of interchangeability between engines, transmissions, bodies, dashboards (etc) the auto enthusiast community would for sure be building cars from scratch out of parts. But realistically the pieces are tightly coupled and you can't pick and chose.
It's the same with coffee machines - if there were interchangable pumps and boilers and group heads etc, I bet building your own coffee machine would be the norm in a certain crowed.
And to be clear there's good technical, aesthetic, regulatory and business why most large machine's are made of interchangeable parts. I'm not saying car and espresso machine manufacturers have done something nefarious. Just that PCs happen to be free of a major constraint.
I think this is because it's one of the few things commonly owned which is expensive enough to customize, but not pressed for space/weight savings. The inside of my PC tower is like 80%+ empty space, totally different than under the hood of a car. No space in there to make it easy to drop in a totally different engine with just a few hookups.
> No space in there to make it easy to drop in a totally different engine with just a few hookups.
It's not about the space, but rather standards and engineering. Old flip phone was as busy around the battery as is modern smartphone. It's hard to change a dying battery if its glued in behind a solid case, no matter the device.
It is about space, laptops don't really have the same luxury as PC.
Currently the trendy ultra small PC cases are going in the same direction with tightly coupled components, not in the connector spec, but dimensional fits.
> It is about space, laptops don't really have the same luxury as PC.
Whats the difference, really? If your laptop CPU and RAM are socketed you can replace/upgrade. If mobos and peripherals were standardized you'd see macs with thinkpad keyboards, and thinkpads with mac internals.
The GDP 1995-2000 (inclusive) was about $52T. So that assertion would mean that about %3.8 of the US' economic activity was laying fiber. That seems like a lot, but in my ignorance doesn't sound totally impossible.
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