At least this time you can disable the SDK (at least one app developer has a kill switch for the SDK) unlike the last issue that happened during code initialisation you couldn’t skip.
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." -- Leslie Lamport, 1987 (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...)
No, I don’t think there’s any “to be fair” in that, unless those SDKs have been officially EOL’d. Even then it shouldn't take down the whole app, Facebook should just break.
That this only happens with some SDKs certainly makes the problem less severe than last time, but only relatively.
There's no such thing as QA at Facebook. Really. Developers are supposedly responsible for all testing of their own code, but all of the pressure is to "move fast" so that goes about as well as you'd expect.
If you have a team run by idiots, then you won't have QA.
If you have a team run by adults, then there is plenty of QA. I mean its total shite that this wasn't caught. I'd expect much better, especially as this is the second time in n months. But then perhaps working for a company run by a dick who can't listen is getting to people.
Engineer in test. QA engineering lead. (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/?q=QA) You must have leet scuba skills with searching skills like that.
AR/VR, Oculus, portal and workplace all have dedicated QA engineering teams. I'm sure there are more.
> Given your characterization of MZ
if it was only zuck. Zuck has two faults: he's not able to articulate any single thought inside of 15 minutes and he consistently throws out integrity products that would have stopped bad PR.
Its not just me, you should look at the micropulse. confidence in leadership has taken a good battering recently.
The whole juneteenth buisness, we had an entire _day_ of people telling us the problem. Senior management then sat next to them and said in reverent tones: "thank you so much [[dabs a tear]] for telling us your lived experience" posts a selfie and then does fuck all else.
Or, having revved up the company to generate hundreds of ideas to tackle abuse on FB platform, do shit all with them, not even acknowledge they exist.
Nothing to do with scuba, and if you did any operational work you'd know that it's in the category of tools that are often flaky due to lack of QA. It's also worth noting that the link you provide only shows 41 listings, and most of those merely mention "familiarity with QA" in some boilerplate for what's obviously a developer position. Leet reading skills you have there. Percentage-wise, there are fewer true QA positions there than we have E-10s. For a company that hires 10K a year, that's indistinguishable from zero.
> AR/VR, Oculus, portal and workplace
In other words some small percentage of the company, none of it near me. All of the systems that the profitable parts of Facebook rely on - to provision systems, monitor systems, store data, move data around, analyze data, etc. - rely entirely on developer testing. So here's an amended statement to make you happy.
"99.9% of Facebook has no QA, and the rest has really bad QA."
just over 10% of job openings have something to do with testing or QA. Of course QA is similar to software engineering, the whole point is to automate testing.
> [AR/VR, Oculus, portal and workplace..][..is] some small percentage of the company
yeah, go look at the headcount.
> none of it near me.
Now we are talking.
> rely entirely on developer testing
again, that wasn't the distinction I was making. It doesn't matter who's testing, so long as it gets done properly. Considering PE is a blended role. Its not a hard push to think that testing might be part of the role of a modern developer. Mind you, so is writing documentation, but thats not a priority either.
The first two times it took months to fix. It’s happening again currently, too.
Clear there are GAPING holes in their test suites.
Make a lot of money selling lifetime subscriptions, then have nowhere to go for cash next year: look at all that money! I'm very successful now!
If all you're measuring and optimizing for is "valuation" or "revenue" you're not automatically going to get a good product or happy customers...