55: What it's like to ship code at Meta

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For episode 55, Pascal speaks with Katherine and returning guest Dustin, two software engineers at Meta about how to ship code at Meta. Why do we have a monorepo? Why and how do we do pre-commit code review? What does our CI infrastructure look like? Get the answers to these questions and many more in this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast.

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Links

The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture - Engineering At Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/06/ios/facebook-ios-app-architecture/
Episode 47: Source control at Meta - https://pca.st/episode/429e9f38-6537-43e3-b929-fbeeda326ed5

Timestamps

Intro 0:06
Intro Katherine 1:55
Dustin's Origin Story 4:38
Topic Intro 6:28
Why Monorepo(s) 7:18
What Makes Monorepos Hard? 12:15
Why do we Have so Many Files? 17:31
Who Owns Stuff? 25:29
Life of a Diff 28:58
Writing Bots Writing Code Writing Bots 34:16
Finding Reviewers 38:46
Why Are Things Not Constantly on Fire? 41:43
Outro 47:47
Outtakes 48:46

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