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Facebook's PHP Codebase: It's Complex

4 pointsby alanthonycalmost 14 years ago

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sapphirecatalmost 14 years ago
This is something I learned both at my first tech job and in reading about the quest to make the "lightest possible Windows installation" for Hotmail: if you don't pay any attention to your dependencies, you'll eventually code your way into a huge ball of spaghetti. At some point systems get big enough to start falling out of your head. By the time I noticed it happening to me at that first job--when I had trouble keeping the <i>relevant subset</i> of the system in mind--my productivity dropped by an order of magnitude. Having a visualization like this would have been handy to help see it coming.
cpetersoalmost 14 years ago
Here is the direct link to Facebook's visualization: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150187460703920" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150187460703920</a>