Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg they told employees recently that the company’s long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life,” helping to create an interconnected world of physical, virtual, and augmented reality spaces that will reshape the way we work, interact with each other, create new things, and , in general, experience life.
So how exactly will Facebook approach such a bold plan?
A new book called “Get moving fast: how Facebook creates software” it does not delve into the metavers, specifically. But, looking at Facebook’s engineering practices, the way the company makes things, the book examines the digital DNA of the social network, sheds new light on its most infamous motto, and explains the internal workings of ‘a company that wants to reshape the human experience. , again.
Facebook influences the culture and economy of engineering not only in his hometown, Menlo Park, California, but also at its development offices in the Seattle area, where it employs 7,000 people. And of course, ultimately, Facebook’s internal practices end up influencing people around the world who use its products.
In this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we talk to the author of the book, Jeff Meyerson, the longtime host of the Daily Software Engineering Podcast, about the ways Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google do things and what these different approaches tell us about where they lead us.
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Audio edition by Curt Milton, musical theme by Daniel LK Caldwell.