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!