Scaling Mercurial at Facebook: Insights from the Other Side - Git Merge 2017

Durham Goode discusses the technical and user experience improvements Facebook made to scale Mercurial for their massive monorepo.

Durham Goode is the tech lead on the Source Control team at Facebook. Facebook uses Mercurial to host some of the largest, fastest growing distributed version control repositories in the world. Over the past four years, they've dealt with numerous scaling challenges, ranging from the number of commits per minute to creating robust, redundant server infrastructure. Facebook has also introduced significant user experience improvements to make it easier to ramp up new engineers and to make power-user workflows more accessible to everyone. In this session, Durham will talk about the specific technical and user experience improvements Facebook has open sourced to handle their growing scale, with an emphasis on the lessons learned that could be valuable to Git and the Git community. About GitMerge Git Merge is the pre-eminent Git-focused conference: a full-day offering technical content and user case studies, plus a day of workshops for Git users of all levels. Git Merge is dedicated to amplifying new voices in the Git community and to showcasing the most thought-provoking projects from contributors, maintainers and community managers around the world. Find out more at git-merge.com