Design Uber/Lyft

This lesson designs a ride-hailing platform like Uber or Lyft, an app that connects people who need a ride with drivers who are nearby. The design has two very different halves: a very large, very fast stream of driver positions that we can afford to lose, and a small, careful record of trips that must always be correct. Every section below belongs to one of those two halves.

1. Problem Definition and Scope

We are designing a two-sided marketplace that connects Riders, who create the demand, with Drivers, who provide the supply, in real time