Jason Sobel

Jason Sobel
Engineering Manager, Facebook

Jason Sobel is an engineering manager on the Infrastructure team at Facebook where he focuses on keeping the site fast and scalable. He helped develop Facebook’s multiple datacenter strategy and also worked on Haystack, Facebook’s custom built photo storage infrastructure. Before joining Facebook, Jason was a member of the WAFL team at NetApp where he worked on filesystem performance. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Brown University.

Sessions

5:20pm–6:00pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Pipelining, Progressive Enhancement, and More: Making Facebook Twice as Fast
Velocity Culture Ballroom CD
Jason Sobel (Facebook), Changhao Jiang (Facebook Inc.)
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(3.83, 12 ratings)
In 2009 the Facebook Engineering team set out to make the site twice as fast. This presentation will describe the technical innovations we made achieving that goal. It will specifically highlight two technologies: BigPipe, which pipelines the process for generating a webpage, and Primer, a simple JavaScript API that enables progressive enhancement. Read more.

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