Presentations

• Posted by Keith Adams  on  Feb 26, 2014
  PHP, Seriously!

  Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.

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  on  Feb 26, 2014

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• Posted by Keith Adams  on  Nov 05, 2013
  Taking PHP Seriously

  Keith Adams outlines PHP's strengths and Facebook's attempts at remedying the inconsistencies and misfeatures in the core language.

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  on  Nov 05, 2013

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• Posted by Keith Adams  on  Apr 09, 2013
  PHP on the Metal with HHVM

  Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.

  Keith Adams

  on  Apr 09, 2013

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• Posted by Guilherme Ottoni  on  Mar 12, 2013
  The HipHop Compiler for PHP

  Guilherme Ottoni presents the design, implementation, and an evaluation of the HipHop compiler for PHP.

  Guilherme Ottoni

  on  Mar 12, 2013

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• Posted by Mark Rendle  on  Jul 31, 2012
  Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)

  Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.

  Mark Rendle

  on  Jul 31, 2012

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• Posted by Nick Schrock  on  Apr 28, 2011
  Evolution of Code Design at Facebook

  Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents - introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.

  Nick Schrock

  on  Apr 28, 2011

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• Posted by Aditya Agarwal  on  May 28, 2010
  Scale at Facebook

  Beside presenting the overall Facebook architecture and scaling solutions used, Aditya Agarwal talks about the iterative process of constantly improving the site, making sure to avoid over-engineering

  Aditya Agarwal

  on  May 28, 2010

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• Posted by Aditya Agarwal  on  Mar 25, 2009
  Facebook: Science and the Social Graph

  Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: PHP, MySQL, Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.

  Aditya Agarwal

  on  Mar 25, 2009

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• Posted by Rob Nicholson  on  Oct 31, 2008
  Running PHP on the JVM with P8

  Robert Nicholson discusses the reasons to bring PHP to the JVM, an overview of PHP and P8, PHP characteristics, how PHP functions are compiled, InvokeDynamic and PHP Functions.

  Rob Nicholson

  on  Oct 31, 2008

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