Uber's internal developer tools: DevPods, Model Gateway, MCP gateway tour
The Model Gateway decision from 2023 shows how a large platform avoids vendor lock-in by abstracting model access — a pattern smaller teams can copy early rather than retrofit. Engineers building internal platforms or agent infrastructure will find concrete references for MCP gateways, agent skills repos and productivity metrics. The city-as-primitive sharding design also contrasts sharply with generic cloud architectures most companies inherit.
