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Interactive Uber-style ride service architecture

All services operating normally with healthy latencies
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Component Types

client
gateway
service
database
cache
queue
external

Architecture Highlights

  • • Kafka for async event processing
  • • Redis for low-latency location data
  • • Microservices enable independent scaling
  • • PostgreSQL per domain (rides, users, payments)

About This Design:

  • Simplified version of Uber's ride-matching architecture
  • Click nodes to see technology stack and performance characteristics
  • Switch scenarios to see how the system handles failures and load
  • Real systems include many more services: notifications, analytics, ML, etc.