Jeff Hammerbacher gave a presentation on January 16, 2008 about Facebook's data infrastructure and insights. He discussed their motivations for improving their data systems due to the challenges of analyzing historical data and assessing site changes in their MySQL infrastructure. He then introduced the people leading their infrastructure and insights teams and described some of the products they developed, including Hive for infrastructure and their experimentation platform for insights.

2. The Facebook Data team
Infrastructure and insight
Jeff Hammerbacher
Engineering Manager
January 16, 2008

3. Agenda
Motivations
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People
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Products
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Philosophy
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4. Motivations
Source data living on a horizontally partitioned MySQL tier
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Intensive historical analysis difficult
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Difficult to assess impact of changes to the site
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First try: Reporting and Analysis
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Second try: Data Infrastructure and Data Insight
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Third try: Data
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5. People
Infrastructure
Rama Ramasamy
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Suresh Antony
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Avinash Lakshman
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Hao Liu
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Joydeep Sen Sarma
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Ashish Thusoo
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Pete Wyckoff
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6. People
Insight
Rupen Parikh
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Itamar Rosenn
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Ravi Grover
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Roddy Lindsay
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Cameron Marlow
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Danny Ferrante
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Ding Zhou
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7. Products
Infrastructure
Hive
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Hive Shell
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Pyhive
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Apidictor
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Nest
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8. Products
Insight
Experimentation Platform
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Argus
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Insights
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InvEst
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Growth Report
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More coming soon...
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