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Are you living in an alternate universe? Facebook are scarily competent. They have executed brilliantly and their engineering is top notch.
by sailormoon 17y ago
Are you living in an alternate universe? Facebook are scarily competent. They have executed brilliantly and their engineering is top notch.
- runT1ME 17y agoReally? You mean like their ultra-reliable chat server they wrote? Or maybe the way their replication works, so when you post things get out of order depending on what server you are looking at?
- sailormoon 17y agoWith criticisms like that, I think your expectations are unrealistic. Considering the size of their userbase, their chat server is quite an accomplishment. And minor replication artefacts are hardly a big issue. In short, if FB had incompetent or even "just" competent engineering, they would not have close to 400 million users. And yet they do, and I have never noticed the site performing slowly. They're not Google, fine, but they have an excellent team and if you're not impressed by their performance I wonder what you would be impressed by.
- runT1ME 17y agoHaving a large user base is not an indication of technical authority. Myspace had (and still does to a lesser extent) extremely large user base, and we know they had some stability issues (Honestly though, I've listened to their tech presentations and am more impressed than the things I've seen Facebook do). No, I don't imagine Gacebook is programmed by a bunch of incompetent monkeys, but compared to Google, Amazon, Yahoo, or many other companies that have had to deal with large scaling issues, their approach seems amateur.
- spudlyo 17y agoAgreed. I'm impressed by the great stuff coming out of Facebook. Cassandara, Scribe, Thrift, etc.