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Facebook is, presumably, many separate components that don't depend on each other in any way How could that even be possible?
by javert 14y ago
Facebook is, presumably, many separate components that don't depend on each other in any way
How could that even be possible?
- ninetax 14y agoThe messaging back-end is probably completely decoupled from the stuff running other components of the site. I would imagine everything interfaces with each other, and as long as you don't break the interface, things could be changed pretty orthogonally.
- jrockway 14y agoIndeed. They have quite a toolchain and a wide variety of libraries. While a change in the javascript framework or PHP compiler affects everything, it isn't dependent on everything.