Scott is an Open Source engineer at Facebook, he’s currently working on HipHop for PHP but over the years has contributed to the PHP core itself and several other main extensions.

Along with coding he enjoys running, cooking and is a fan of drinking good whisky.

Scaling Your Development Team

10 people working on a single code base can be considered high, but what about 600 people?

At Facebook, code is pushed 5 times a week to over 500 million people. The small amount of downtime is due to the practices of our engineering team and the process used to do a release.

Scott’s talk is going to cover everything that goes into the development of a feature at Facebook and how that code is pushed. He will try to cover as much as possible about the underlying technology stack and the open source software they use and release to make it all happen.

http://blip.tv/phpnw/phpnw11-scott-macvicar-scaling-your-development-team-5858442

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