How Facebook Became A Mobile-First Company, And Why It Is So Involved With Open Sourcing

Facebook Head of Mobile Release Engineering Christian Legnitto and Head of Open-Source Projects James Pearce spoke about the social network’s transition to a mobile company and its mobile open-source projects at a whiteboard session at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., earlier this week, TechCrunch reported.

Facebook Head of Mobile Release Engineering Christian Legnitto and Head of Open-Source Projects James Pearce spoke about the social network’s transition to a mobile company and its mobile open-source projects at a whiteboard session at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., earlier this week, TechCrunch reported.

The social network shared its old (below) and new (above) mobile organizational charts, but, as TechCrunch pointed out, not all of Facebook’s mobile products are represented, nor are functions including infrastructure and measurement.

Legnitto said during the session, as reported by TechCrunch, that Facebook’s mobile team was “constantly playing catch-up” under the old model, but its iOS and Android applications are now “mobile-first and mobile-best,” adding:

We changed how we develop, changed how we ship, changed how we write code, but kept our culture.

And

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