Facebook… scale…

Uhuh, remember “X can’t handle our scale”, from Simon Whitaker?

Seems they have purged the slides since then, best I was able to find was this:

https://darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/

Has anyone a copy of that PDF file?

Of interest to me is the fact that both Google and Facebook, which are structured around a large monorepo, dropped git in favour of mercurial (of which sapling is a fork in the instance of facebook).

Businesses operating large repos should really consider giving mercurial a renewed look IMO.

Although I despise their software, I do enjoy their engineering blogs, thanks for sharing.