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Facebook, where the users are the QA department

• mapleoin 12y ago
  This is the most important point here. Facebook can afford to do this because their users don't care. No one really needs Facebook or depends on it to work at critical times. Most products are not like that. Imagine what happened if Gmail started doing move fast and break things. Oops some of your email vanished.
  • Bahamut 12y ago
    On the contrary, I have to believe they do care. Many here might not remember or know, but early on, Facebook was very unstable due to the sheer server load. Performance is still an important metric for them. It is why they created HHVM, Hack, and React.js. How often do you hear of Facebook going down or breaking completely?
    • madeofpalk 12y ago
      I agree, remember Twitter? It started getting popular quite a while ago, but servers couldn't handle the load which lead to a lot of down time. Eventually, users just left twitter and they shut down the site a year later.
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• Kiro 12y ago
  You say it like it's a bad thing.