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> Figure 1a shows how incidents happened substantially less on Saturday and
> Sunday even though traffic to the site remains consistent throughout the
> week. Figure 1b shows a six-month period during which there were only two
> weeks with no incidents: the week of Christmas and the week when employees
> are expected to write peer reviews for each other.
>
> These two data points seem to suggest that when Facebook employees are not
> actively making changes to infrastructure because they are busy with other
> things (weekends, holidays, or even performance reviews), the site
> experiences higher levels of reliability.
>

Via Lobsters [1], “Graham King » Facebook’s code quality problem [2]”

I guess Facebook's [3] old motto of “move fast and break things [4]” was
probably not the best motto [5] a company could have.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/4gf4cr/facebook_s_code_quality_problem
[2] http://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/
[4] https://xkcd.com/1428/
[5] http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fast-with-stability/#bzLDCWCUFsqT

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