Meet a Facebook Engineer: Andrew (Boz) Bosworth
Jan 27, 2012 · A: When I joined in January 2006, Facebook was the most ambitious of a wave of social technologies. It certainly wasn’t the first social technology on the web, but we all joined it and used it …
Facebook Engineering Bootcamp - Engineering at Meta
Nov 19, 2009 · When I joined the company in January of 2006, we had 5 million users being supported by about 15 engineers, a ratio of about 300,000 users per engineer. We have more than doubled the …
Under the Hood: Building and open-sourcing fbthrift
Feb 20, 2014 · To support this practice, in 2006 we created Thrift, a cross-language framework for handling RPC, including serialization/deserialization, protocol transport, and server creation. Since …
Accelerating growth through Facebook’s Rotational Engineering Program
Jun 30, 2017 · In 2006, I Googled the words “design” and “math” because I really wanted to do something that involved both fields. I found the Digital Graphic Design Engineer at the University of …
IPv6: It’s time to get on board - Engineering at Meta
Sep 14, 2015 · We’ve long been anticipating the exhaustion of IPv4 in favor of the speed and performance benefits of IPv6. For years, we’ve known the limitations of IPv4, and these limitations …
Under the hood: Building Moments - Engineering at Meta
Jun 15, 2015 · Visit the post for more.These days, with a phone in nearly everyone’s pocket, it’s easy to capture photos of the moments in our lives. But, somehow, you rarely end up getting all the photos …
Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc - Engineering at Meta
Jan 3, 2011 · Visit the post for more.The Facebook website comprises a diverse set of server applications, most of which run on dedicated machines with 8+ CPU cores and 8+ GiB of RAM. …
Site Reliability Engineering at Facebook
Feb 8, 2010 · Visit the post for more.I recently returned from visiting family and friends in Delaware, and I was asked by everyone, “What do you do at Facebook?” The best answer that I could give them …
Mark Harman elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Sep 21, 2020 · Director of the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and Testing from its inception in 2006 until his move to Facebook, Harman remains a professor of Software Engineering at UCL …
Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools
Feb 4, 2025 · We’re sharing how Meta built support for data logs, which provide people with additional data about how they use our products. Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an …