Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
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Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product design and architecture. He works on Search, Advertising and News Feed. He was one of the co-authors of Thrift, a popular open-source RPC framework.
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Dinh Pham
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Dinh Pham
hmm.
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Ivan L
their platform sounds like a mess of a variety of languages. "right language for the task" sounds to me like a euphemism for "i can't really control my vastly more experienced developers"
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Max Indelicato
This sounds to me like the a critique by someone who is afraid to move beyond their comfort zone.
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Dan Creswell
"their platform sounds like a mess of a variety of languages. "right language for the task" sounds to me like a euphemism for "i can't really control my vastly more experienced developers""
This sounds to me like the a critique by someone who is afraid to move beyond their comfort zone.
Dunno about that but would note that Amazon also use a variety of languages and it's encouraged - Vogels says:
"You build a small team. You give them this problem. And at Amazon, they're allowed to solve that problem in any way they see fit, as long as it is through this hardened API. They can pick the tools they want. They can do any design methodology they want as long as they deliver the actual functionality that they've been tasked with......We have some requirements: that services has to be monitorable, that they have to be tractable in all sorts of different ways. But in essence, operation is all up to the service owners themselves. This allows for a large-let's say controlled chaos-which actually works very well because everybody's responsible for their own services."
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Brian Wood
Your link goes to one particular slide (6.swf). I can get to the others by editing the url, but is the a starting page, or a way to download all of the slides at once?
Thanks for posting this presentation.
Brian
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Adrien Delorme
With this phrase I just would like to ask, what would you use if you could go back to the very beginning of Facebook with the nowadays advances ?
Java, Php, Ruby, Python etc. ?
Rails, Zend, Symfony, your framework, reinventing the wheel etc. ?
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