Yup. Have never gotten the whole "Airbnb/Uber/<startup>" is just a crud app line of thought.
If they're crud apps then everything else in between is just glue programming.
The author of the post covered some very astute points but one not covered in much detail is the challenge of scale and reliability. Maybe this falls under the bucket of optimization and/or latency but I think this deserves being called out on its own.
Once you have Uber-scale number of users requesting taxis at any point, and have a network of drivers constantly communicating their position with the app, suddenly you no longer have a trivial crud app on your hands...
If they're crud apps then everything else in between is just glue programming.
The author of the post covered some very astute points but one not covered in much detail is the challenge of scale and reliability. Maybe this falls under the bucket of optimization and/or latency but I think this deserves being called out on its own.
Once you have Uber-scale number of users requesting taxis at any point, and have a network of drivers constantly communicating their position with the app, suddenly you no longer have a trivial crud app on your hands...