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Facebook's infrastructure team controversially managed software up through the mobile stack
“At Facebook, the infrastructure team was not just the hardware. It was all of the software. And we actually went quite a bit up the stack to the end consumed, right? So The, a lot of the mobile stack even, in fact, was like run by the infrastructure team, righ…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 23:07 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
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Parikh: Facebook scaled deployment from daily to continuous release cadence
“When I was at Facebook, when I joined, we did, which was like, really fast at the time. We used to ship The main core of Facebook once a day, and it was like a Herculean effort that, you know, most of the time went okay, but sometimes it didn't go okay, and, b…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 18:35 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Small Microsoft CoreAI teams ship code multiple times per day
“We have teams now in Core AI and Microsoft that, you know, that I support, that I work with, that, Are shipping daily, sometimes multiple times a day, and, you know, some of this stuff is, like, newer products, so they don't have lots of tech debt and whatnot,…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 19:55 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
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Off-the-shelf infrastructure could not match Facebook's massive scaling requirements
“When I got to Facebook, we weren't building our own data centers, we weren't building our own hardware, we weren't laying around subsea cables, and, you know, those types of things, but over the years, as we saw, one, kind of the scale that we needed to operat…”
Jay Parikh Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 32:31 The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
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