Engineering @ Facebook Interesting read about Facebook Connect and some follow up stats 6 months after launch.
Source: www.businessinsider.com
As much as Beacon was Facebook's low point, that service's replacement, Facebook Connect, is vaulting the company to new heights.
Engineering @ Facebook Facebook Engineers launch new privacy controls giving users even greater control over the information they share and the audiences with whom they share it.
UPDATE on Wednesday, July 8: We have begun testing the new privacy settings with a small percentage of users. Each user within the test group will see several Transition Tools that will help them select the level of privacy they are most comfortable with and introduce the new, simpler settings...
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Source: gigaom.com
Om sat down this afternoon with Facebook Technical Operations VP Jonathan Heiliger to talk about the social network's infrastructure and ...
Engineering @ Facebook For those of you who missed out on Velocity, here's a link to the video of Jonathan Heiliger's keynote on scaling Facebook past 200 million users, moving fast, optimizing efficiency and what we learned along the way.
Source: velocityconference.blip.tv
Jonathan Heiliger (Facebook) "After the Click"
Engineering @ Facebook Facebook Research Scientists, David Wei and Changhao Jiang, will be speaking at Velocity today @ 3:40pm on improving and maintaining frontend performance. Hope to see you there!
Frontend Performance Engineering in Facebook : Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June 22 - 24, 2
Source: en.oreilly.com
Facebook integrates features and applications deeply into each page. Such deep integration presents both opportunities and challenges to the frontend performance engineering. In this talk, we discuss some ...
Lucas at 7:08pm June 24
@ lee, maybe you should ask the people who make your browser why it does not function 100%?? if all the browsers worked correctly there would be no problems. maybe you need to change browsers???
Jon at 2:32pm June 25
Very interesting talk. FB's doing some cool stuff.
Source: news.cnet.com
Some of Facebook's recent feature launches have brought in a crazy amount of traffic. How does the site balance it? Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Webware.
Lucas at 9:53pm June 23
i am also trying to contact you about some system ideas i have (that are ready) but am getting no response.
Ajaya at 10:43pm June 23
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Engineering @ Facebook Data at Facebook is growing at an incredible rate. Come watch Robert Johnson, Director of Engineering at Facebook, give a talk at Velocity tomorrow on High Performance at Massive Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook.
High Performance at Massive Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conference
Source: en.oreilly.com
At Facebook we serve billions of personalized pages every day, each of them computed from hundreds or thousands of separate pieces of data. This adds up to almost fifty million data requests per second against a dataset of over 50TB. ...
Engineering @ Facebook Going to Velocity? Be sure to catch Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's VP of Technical Operations, give a keynote talk on scaling past 200 million users, moving fast, optimizing efficiency and what we learned along the way.
Source: en.oreilly.com
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Facebook Chat usage has increased steadily since its launch last year, and this week we reached 1 billion messages sent per day...
A number of engineers from Facebook are speaking at the Yahoo! Hadoop Summit today about the ways we are using Hadoop and Hive for analytics. Hive is an open source, peta-byte scale date warehousing framework based on Hadoop that was developed by the Data Infrastructure Team at Facebook...
Rafi at 10:30pm June 17
this is great!
Engineering @ Facebook at 10:44am June 24
Hi Schubert,
We do compress the data stored in Hive using gzip over Hadoop SequenceFiles. We also use it to regularly pre compute rollups for a number of our internal data processing pipelines. We do want to extend the syntax to support rollups and cube computations through constructs in the SQL standard and this is something that we have talked ... Read Moreabout a lot and will happen in future. As regards latency, as our integration with Microstrategy proceeds (we are building an ODBC driver), this will become more and more important. HIVE-417 should solve some of those issues. I think Prasad had uploaded a lot more details there but it would be good to comment on the JIRA saying that you are interested in that feature and ask for more details. For the very short term, you can address latencies by loading the pre computed summaries to a mysql db and serving them from there.
Glad to hear that you are using this and liking it.
We do compress the data stored in Hive using gzip over Hadoop SequenceFiles. We also use it to regularly pre compute rollups for a number of our internal data processing pipelines. We do want to extend the syntax to support rollups and cube computations through constructs in the SQL standard and this is something that we have talked ... Read Moreabout a lot and will happen in future. As regards latency, as our integration with Microstrategy proceeds (we are building an ODBC driver), this will become more and more important. HIVE-417 should solve some of those issues. I think Prasad had uploaded a lot more details there but it would be good to comment on the JIRA saying that you are interested in that feature and ask for more details. For the very short term, you can address latencies by loading the pre computed summaries to a mysql db and serving them from there.
Glad to hear that you are using this and liking it.
Moving fast is one of our core values: It’s how we constantly launch and improve our products. On the two-year anniversary of Facebook Platform, watch how the team behind it helped make the Web a more social place by enabling developers to build applications that had never been possible before.
Length:3:29
A big part of keeping everything humming at Facebook is making sure everyone occasionally has fun. In addition to the hackathons we hold internally, we also sponsor programming contests to let external programmers to show their stuff...
David at 2:16am May 9
only residents of the United States?? come on... this is not a real contest...
Héctor at 12:25pm May 13
I kinda remember one of the Facebook Principles states "One World"...
Source: www.bestjobsever.net
Love the tips on how to ‘get the job’ -shed some light on a really cool place to work and also came with some great interview advice… something everyone always needs to be ready to use ...
Wendy at 3:27pm June 2
great, i clicked the fuckin thing..now I'm screwed, right? nice security Facebook has for its users...jagoffs
Ian at 8:12am June 17
Haha, are you people for real? First off, the website you're discussing isn't even a facebook.com address, which is the absolute only way it'd be legit, and second, YOU CLICKED IT. Facebook has nothing to do with your mouse and your willingness to click on an external link. What, do you want them to send over a nanny to watch you surf the internet? Your fault, your problem.
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