Production Engineering: Connect the Dots
summary
Explains how Facebook hires and trains new grads into a hybrid SRE/software role that sits embedded production engineers on software teams, shares a 30‑person on‑call rotation (6 PEs and 24 SWEs), and pushes for automation. Describes building a custom kill-switch/throttle tool that finds misused use cases, injects throttles, and scales from one team to five or six adopters, plus a zero‑downtime reprovision of thousands of hosts — concrete practices, code, and measurable adoption.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 4:49Bridging school and work
- 5:23Interviewing best practices
- 11:35Onboarding new engineers
- 11:52System immersion
- 15:54Production engineering model
- 16:43Engineering culture at scale
- 20:29Personal project impact
- 21:55Final advice and conclusions
- 24:03Closing
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