Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, with over 500 million active users responsible for billions of photos, conversations, and interactions all around the world running on top of tens of thousands of servers spread across multiple geographically-separated data centers. When problems arise in the infrastructure behind the scenes it directly impacts the ability of people to... [read more]

Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, with over 500 million active users responsible for billions of photos, conversations, and interactions all around the world running on top of tens of thousands of servers spread across multiple geographically-separated data centers. When problems arise in the infrastructure behind the scenes it directly impacts the ability of people to connect and share with those they care about around the World.

Facebook’s Technical Operations team has to balance this need for constant availability with a fast-moving and experimental engineering culture. We release code every day. Additionally, we are supporting exponential user growth while still managing an exceptionally high ratio of users per employee within engineering and operations.

This talk will go into how Facebook is “run” day-to-day with particular focus on our extensive systems automation, monitoring, and management tools, how we detect anomalies and respond to them, and the processes we use internally for rapidly pushing out changes while still keeping a handle on site stability.

Come hear Tom Cook speak on Tuesday, August 31st @ 7pm.

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We’ll be streaming the tech talk live from the ‘Facebook Live’ tab at 7pm! We invite you to ask questions via the ‘Ask A Question’ button (you can do so both in advance and during the Tech Talk).

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