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Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

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Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day.

Bio

Robert Johnson is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he leads the software development efforts. He was previously at ActiveVideo Networks, leading the distributed systems and set-top software development teams. He received a B.S. In Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech.

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May 24, 2010

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  • Organizational Challenges

    by Bernie Barbour,

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    Excellent presentation, thank you.

    I was wondering if you could speak or touch on your challenges of scaling organizationally so at 1.1M users per 1 engineer where are all your engineers located?

    Are you experiences challenges in ownership of code?
    Are you able to scale development across timezones and geographies?

  • Who owns the product?

    by Joseph Taylor,

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    Thanks for giving us insights into your software engineering processes. It very similar to small agencies where a developer is also a designer and an operations engineer.

    Can you give us a little insight on who owns the product or product features? What's the percentage split of engineers vs product owners/managers vs architects?

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