[HappyTypist]

Okay, OVH is not realistic, but at Uber scale, you can certainly roll your own data-centres and get costs lower than, or similar to OVH, even when including the cost of sysadmin and maintenance.

Yes, it means you won't get all the shiny quality of life services offered by cloud providers, but you're in a _margin sensitive business_. Deal with it. Optimize every cost.

Also, you don't need expensive engineers re-inventing the most basic things (I know Uber had a huge not-invented-here syndrome). Use the boring tools for the job. Only reinvent what is necessary. You don't need engineers practicing resume-driven-development.

[bthrn]

Uber does use its own data centers.