How is the architecture for sending messages to customers (drivers) in Uber?

Question

Software design

How is the architecture for sending messages to customers (drivers) in Uber? When a client orders a taxi, the message arrives at the server, the server does the manipulations and sends it to potential performers?

Interested in how this section of architecture is organized? Sockets?

Answer 1

Yes, whatever. There are a million ways to do it - both sockets and Long polling and push and all sorts of different perversions. Though grpc