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Uber's DISCO dispatch engine matches riders to drivers in under 3 seconds

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Uber's dispatch system, DISCO, uses Google's S2 Geometry to divide the map into cells, enabling fast driver-rider matching. Driver locations are streamed via WebSockets and stored in Redis for sub-millisecond access. Atomic database operations prevent double-booking when multiple riders request simultaneously.

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The teardown offers a solid overview of real-time geospatial matching, but glosses over edge cases like surge pricing and driver acceptance rates.
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