Development and Deployment at Facebook
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Internet companies such as Facebook operate in a "perpetual development" mindset. This means that the website continues to undergo development with no predefined final objective, and that new developments are deployed so that users can enjoy them as soon as they're ready. To support this, Facebook uses both technical approaches such as peer review and extensive automated testing, and a culture of personal responsibility.
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Developer resistance to coordinate with DevOps security team is a DevOps security challenge.
“Developer resistance not to coordinate with DevOps security team [57], [76], [77] slow-downs the whole deployment process, as no proper measures were taken to control security threats during development phase.”
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- Authors
- Feitelson, D. G., Frachtenberg, E., & Beck, K. L.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Meta (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Venue
- IEEE Internet Computing
- Published
- 2013-07
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 8-17
- ISSN
- 1089-7801 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1972091638
- Cited by
- 243
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 8
- FWCI
- 51.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Locations
- IEEE Internet Computing (publishedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Software System Performance and Reliability
- Keywords
- continuous deployment, Facebook, peer review, test automation, personal responsibility, software development culture, internet companies
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