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Scaling Facebook Engineering

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Summary

David Mortenson details how Facebook maintained efficiency while increasing the number of engineers by reducing the n00b time sink, keeping development fast and avoiding unintended consequences.

Bio

David Mortenson is an Engineering Manager at Facebook with more than 13 years of experience in software development. Prior to joining Facebook, David was Director of Development at Microsoft for the .Net Framework core platform. David holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

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Feb 21, 2013

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