Fennhella

I think you're reading too much into it (If you're being serious).

Doubt it had any other meaning other than the team just having fun making a quip at the Boaty Mcboatface poll for a ship's name.

Especially when that makes it sound neck on neck when in reality Uber is trailing Didi Chuxing (formerly Didi Kuaidi) by a wide margin.

Didi Chuxing has 87.2% of the market according to research from the China Internet Network Information Center.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/11/c_134998758.htm

Im curious, what do you use/recommend for monitoring and tracing?

Seems like a test to see how the practice goes.

Really don't know what the hypothesis or plan is that would lead to good conclusions though.

I have no doubt about uber being around in 20 years, they're just too well established and understand where the industry is heading to become irrelevant.

Though what I do think will happen is an erosion of their lead where they go from the sole 800lb gorrilla in the west to being one of many with automakers coming into their own offering self driven taxi style service on what will probably be a subscription model (like how we have monthly payments for cars today).

Thanks for all the work thus far, isn't a day goes by where I don't use a YC company's service.

hope there's plenty quality time in this sabbatical!

You could proxy using nginx to allow read only access to specific endpoints, there's a few good posts about it going into better detail than me, for example:

http://blog.eagerelk.com/securing-elasticsearch-using-nginx-...

Very similar instantsearch.js (which is also react components) for Algolia search.

Having this for elasticsearch is very useful indeed, get products out there with a consistent search UI.