December 2011
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“The Amazon interruption was the computing equivalent of an airplane crash. It is...”
– Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer of Rackspace, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/technology/23cloud.html
September 2011
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“All of our customer acquisition has been free — through social media,...”
– Aaron Patzer, Founder of Mint.com found in Inc. Magazine
July 2011
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May 2011
4 posts
Code release process in Facebook
I’ve just come across interesting video in which Chuck Rossi, Core Release Engineer in Facebook with 27 years of experience as an engineer in Silicon Valley, talks about release process in Facebook and how they manage to push updates every day.
If you don’t have time to watch video here’s a list of the most interesting things I’ve noted watching it:
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We're recruting Facebook Developers using......
We decided to hire Facebook Developers to help us working on our social media applications platform Megafoni. But writing a job offer and publishing it is so 2010 ;). As our project is part of Facebook enviroment in which developers live too, we created a Facebook application named: Megafoni.pl rekrutuje! in which instead of just informing about the offer, we actually do initial testing of...
Fake votes in Facebook contests
Contests which include voting part are probably the most popular Facebook promotions. Developers should be aware of the fact that the more valuable prizes are, the more application is vulnerable to fake votes from cheaters who are able to create hundreads of accounts to win the contest. In one of photo contests run on our social media applications platform Megafoni, we witnessed such fraud.
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