I’m a huge Facebook fan. Both from a personal, and a technical point-of-view. And they give some pretty interesting techtalks, to demonstrate why they deserve my glory (yes, only for that reason).
- Front End Tech Talk (1h:08m:40s) : presentation about Javascript, optimization, performance, usability, … Interesting to see how they used Bootloader (on-demand loading), Primer , Haste (packaging & dependency management), Javelin , BigPipe , Pagelets, … to optimize their javascript. Bit of PHP info on their backend as well.
- Rethinking Servers & Datacenters (44m:46s) : Datacenter optimization, infrastructure, … Very good introduction in power usage/supply in datacenters, traditional cooling, PUE . Some good alternatives as well.
- Design Tech Talk (1h:02m:22s) : quick iterations, small teams & much creativity. How to walk through design processes, get interactions, get comments, … using tools like Pixelcloud ,
- Typeahead Search Tech Talk (51m:13s) : using intuitive search results as you type with Typeahead . Both front- and backend consequences for introducing it. Also read the “classic” Facebook Search , the Social Role that was integrated in displaying wanted results.
Want more? Lucky you, there’s an entire Facebook Techtalk page for those movies!