From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

• Joel’s journey to Facebook
• Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Building and shipping fast
• The value of a developers time and their critical paths
• A day in the life of a Facebook manager
• Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
• A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
• Stabalisation and release process
• Recruiting the right people
• Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
• Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
• Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
• Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute

You can contact Joel at facebook or on twitter at @joelpob.

The Agile Revolution- 72 (41 minutes)