Facebook's Director of Engineering Andrew "Boz" Bosworth wasn't trained to "ship early and ship often" — the social network's motto. Bosworth went to Microsoft for a year and a half after college, where he was trained to ship slowly and less frequently. "I thought the right way was to slow down and take our time pushing it out," Bosworth says. All that changed when Mark Zuckerberg recruited him. "Mark deserves a lot of credit for how quickly we still move this company," says Bosworth. After six years on the job, he just published a lengthy blog post outlining the methods Facebook uses to test and push out features at such breakneck speed.
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