What are some of the cool internal-only tools that your company built in-house from the ground up instead of relying on open source alternatives and what are the differences between them? Google and FB are examples of such companies because they have unprecedented scale. Some examples: FB - Automation tool that allows you to specify rules to execute certain if-this-then-that-style actions. Useful for automating repetitive actions - Data visualization tool that let's you view a database table in any supported visualization format - Page navigation browser redirect that let's you jump to any service/page with just a short memorizable command, similar to Google's go/ - Internal version of Docker - Phabricator - code review and viewing platform (not exactly internal now) - Code ownership/attribution tool based on commit and review history of code files - Pokedex where you catch a random Pokemon every time you close a task - ID tool where you paste an ID and get the schema and data of that entity What else!
Odd - diff tool
Lol π , your joking right
Coming from FB and you didnβt mention scuba? It is the most beloved by all exFBers.
I mentioned that as the data visualization tool? Maybe the description ain't good enough. Suggestions welcome!
Is scuba an internal tool for FB only?
Flipper. Coming from a winforms/wpf background I always looked for the mobile equivalent of HawkEye/Snoop
Are these all developed by engineers on infrastructure side? (or tools if there is one)
Yes mostly we have dedicated teams to build them as it's a large enough problem that a significant portion of the company is facing
Why would Go links be implemented as a browser plugin? Defeats the ubiquity of Go links.
Sorry I recalled wrongly, it's not a plugin, it's a browser redirect to our internal redirection directory
Oldfart let's us see how many people have left the company since you joined.
At FB we have a dashboard for that too. It also shows the number of quitters every month and their tenure
PayPal has an entire org that tries to reinvent the wheel for industry standards open source tools and fails miserably. So, none.
Memegen
Facebookβs meeting booking tool and viewfinders.
We have Amazon Chime going for us... Though it's publicly available I think we're the only ones using it
What does it do?
It's an instant messenger tool?