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As part of a team flushing out Facebook’s 2008 Election campaign designed to get more people to register to vote and then actually vote, I was responsible for the message on top of the News Feed. We had our design and messaging ready to go as the weekend before election day was approaching.
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November 19
Engineering @ Facebook wrote a note.
November 19 at 4:02pmAs part of a team flushing out Facebook’s 2008 Election campaign designed to get more people to register to vote and then actually vote, I was responsible for the message on top of the News Feed. We had our design and messaging ready to go as the weekend before election day was approaching.
November 17
Engineering @ Facebook updated its profile. It changed Company Overview.
November 17 at 10:38amAugust 20
Engineering @ Facebook wrote a note.
August 20 at 11:05amI joined Facebook in April 2007 and, after getting settled over the course of a few weeks, my manager Robert Johnson approached me. We talked for a while but the conversation boiled down to:
Bobby: "So, Jason, we're going to open a new datacenter in Virginia by 2008.
Bobby: "So, Jason, we're going to open a new datacenter in Virginia by 2008.
July 28
University of Texas First Bytes Camp, 07/24-7/25 - 10 new photos
July 28 at 10:12pm
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FACEBOOK CHAT: INVISIBLE FEATURE???
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Sounds cool, how do I get in on all the action?
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| Company Overview: | We are the fourth-most trafficked site in the United States. We are also the largest photo-sharing site in the United States; we have over five billion photos, and our users upload over 11 million new photos every day. As an engineer, any products you build will be used by millions of people, including (most likely) many of your friends. |
| Mission: | Our development cycle is extremely fast, and we've built tools to keep it that way. It's common to write code and have it running on the live site a few days later. This comes as a pleasant surprise to engineers who have worked at other companies where code takes months or years to see the light of day. If you work for us, you will be able to make an immediate impact. |
| Products: | As we grow, we continually face scalability challenges that no one has solved, and we successfully engineer our way through them. Already, we are the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world (Yahoo is #1), and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. In terms of total photo page views, we exceed all of the next largest photo sites combined. Here's a sample of the technical challenges we have overcome: * We've built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows us to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. Facebook is built in PHP, C++, Perl, Python, Erlang, Java, and even a little bit of ML—and it all works together. * We are the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system. Originally developed by LiveJournal, we've since made so many scalability improvements and performance upgrades that we will be the primary contributor of features in the next major release. * We've created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates. We also are always looking for ways to harness the power of our data set in innovative ways, such as News Feed. To aid in this goal, we've opened Facebook up as a platform for external developers. Come make your ingenuity part of not just one product but potentially thousands of web sites and desktop applications around the world. |
University of Texas First Bytes Camp, 07/24-7/25Created about 4 months ago
Engineering Life @ FacebookCreated about 10 months ago
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