[cduruk]

Is the author of this piece an engineer working at Facebook? This part makes me think not:

>I’m fascinated by the way Facebook operates. It’s a very unique environment, not easily replicated (nor would their system work for all companies, even if they tried). These are notes gathered from talking with many friends at Facebook about how the company develops and release software.

So I'd take whatever is written here with a grain of salt. My communication with friends working at Facebook yielded similar thoughts but nothing that comes to what's written that implies a callous recklessness. I know for a fact that they have some code-review tools and blocking tests.

Anyway, my point is that the author doesn't seem to be embedded too deeply in the engineering at Facebook and his notes are, while not outright false, definitely misleading.