Move Fast and Ship Things
summary
A concrete checklist of what changed and how it’s measured not vague promises: twice a day front end deploys, two‑week HHVM heart surgery releases with a week of internal dogfooding, mandatory peer review before any code lands, incremental rollouts from 1%→10% with automated metric alarms on CPU and throughput, large local dev machines able to run a mini‑Facebook, a shift from PHP to Hack and JIT/compiled strategies that sacrificed low short‑term success rates for a high payoff.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 4:37Explosive Growth on Mobile
- 5:23Monthly Active Users and Daily Active Users
- 16:49Facebook Is Not a Website
- 17:58Heart Surgery Cycle
- 20:58How Do We Detect It Breaks
- 38:53How Do You Keep a Site That Has So Many Moving Pieces Working Smoothly








