Things move fast at Facebook. The company has been known to have new engineers write and deploy new features to the platform on their first day on the job.
Combined with the rate of growth of its user base, this kind of application-development speed requires a level of nimbleness on the part of the social network’s infrastructure team that’s rarely seen in enterprise data centers. Shortening the speed to deploy is a constantly moving target for both software and data center capacity at Facebook.
