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# [Designing Uber Eats: The Three-Sided Marketplace, Dispatch, and ETA](https://systemdesignacademy.hashnode.dev/designing-uber-eats-the-three-sided-marketplace-dispatch-and-eta?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Why food delivery is harder than ride-hailing and how the dispatch problem changes when a courier can be assigned before the food is even cooked. A grounded look at marketplace matching and ETA prediction.

Jul 20 · 4 min read · systemdesignacademy.hashnode.dev  
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AI engineering, agentic memory, machine learning, and system design at scale.

I work on AI systems and the infrastructure they actually run on: agentic architectures, memory for agents, retrieval, and the graph and data layers that keep model output grounded in something real. Formerly at Neo4j. I also write and teach the systems side that most AI content skips, from distributed systems and databases to the design decisions that decide whether a model ever reaches production. I run Total Technology Zonne on YouTube and I am building systemdesign.academy, an interactive course on system design, machine learning, and AI engineering, covering the parts most tutorials leave as an exercise for the reader. Mock interviews and prep packs: topmate.io/roni

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