Facebook

When: 18:00 - 19:00

Where: Classroom P22

Presenter: Rok Papež, Production Engineer, Facebook

Facebook, the biggest social network, has more than 2.2 Billion monthly active users and thus has to operate a large and scalable infrastructure. Rok Papež, a Production Engineer from Facebook’s European HQ in Dublin, will talk about Facebook’s NTP and DNS infrastructure. Talks will be on scaling and resiliency of the NTP service, how Facebook load balances traffic using DNS RUM (Real User Metrics) and offloading of TLS session establishment. Talk will also detail DNS data pipeline and the internal structure of DNS server.

When: 15:15 – 17:00

Where: Classroom P22 and Garaža FRI

Presenter: Rok Papež, Production Engineer, Facebook

Facebook, the biggest social network, has more than 2.2 Billion monthly active users and thus has to operate a large and scalable infrastructure. Rok Papež, a Production Engineer from Facebook’s European HQ in Dublin, will talk about how Facebook looks from the inside. Focus will be on the infrastructure that enables all your “likes”, Facebook’s mission, innovation roadmap, values and culture. It will be followed up with demystifying of what Production engineering is and how it relates to DevOps and Software engineering; we’ll touch upon the importance of teamwork and the nurturing of the “No Blame” culture (yes, that applies even when site is unavailable ;)).

In the second part of the talk he will share some inside tips on how to prepare and excel at typical coding interviews that all big tech firms use to identify the best people.

After the talk there will be an AMA ( “Ask me anything”) session in Garaža