HHVM

From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

Joel’s journey to Facebook
Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Building and shipping fast
The value of a developers time and their critical paths
A day in the life of a Facebook manager
Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
Stabalisation and release process
Recruiting the right people
Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute

You can contact Joel at facebook or on twitter at @joelpob.

Craig Smith