Keynote

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Announces Facebook’s mobile-first overhaul after field tests in Africa that find apps crashing, draining battery and chewing data so badly an engineer exhausts a plan in 40 minutes; recounts building 700 million personalized “Look Back” videos in weeks by reusing flexible services; describes intentionally powering down an entire data-center region (tens of megawatts) for a day to surface failures — the drill mostly succeeds but uncovers actionable bugs; unveils Webscale SQL work on MySQL 5.6 (Global Transaction ID fixes) and a new to-do open-source initiative on GitHub (www.r.org).

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1. 0:00Welcome to Big at Scale 2014
2. 3:12Engineering challenges
3. 6:22Core engineering principles
4. 11:12Embracing failure
5. 14:46Open source collaboration

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