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darien on Sept 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages ...

Keep in mind that facebook's engineering philosophy is to push new code out every single day. This means that there is little to no QA on code push. Every engineer takes responsibility for their own code push and because people are human they mess up from time to time. I don't think this means that the culture is broken... there are simply pros and cons to on the fly site builds.

Evbn on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

Have you ever written software? Or counted?

Facebook pushes code every day. As does Google and Amazon. These are orgs with thousands of people. Not every engineer pushes code every day.

darien on Sept 25, 2012 | [–]

Look into 'fail fast' as a concept. Facebook claims to take fail fast to the extreme.

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