Facebook announced this week that it will expand the page switching feature on the site. According to Chuck Rossi, head of the social network’s engineering team, after the opening of a new office in London and the hiring of a new engineer in New York, the number of lines of code written increased.
“When I came to Facebook in 2008, I was the only release engineer to coordinate 100 developers in one place,” he explained. “Now that we’re adding more people to other offices around the world, my small team in California supports hundreds of developers who produce six times as many lines of code.”
With the resulting coding volume, Rossi hopes that from now on, the team can double the update rate. “We work in teams of a thousand engineers to make our changes as fast and efficient as teams of one hundred,” he said.
Source: Facebook
Source: Tec Mundo
