Session #2 - Building A Meta Internal Tool To Empower An Entire Org: Staff Promotion Story

Debugging was a huge pain point for the Facebook Portal org

20.4K20.4K Views 132 Likes Debugging was a huge pain point for the Facebook Portal org. To fix this, Rahul built a tool that made it far easier to debug tricky Android issues (Portal runs a fork of Android). It took all the crazy dump files from Android bugs and extracted the insights. Rahul started off the tool with an extremely simple interface: Upload the massive dump file and it would extract insights. He would improve it later by making it so the user only needed the bug ID. The tool started off with around 100 engineers using it and then grew to 250+! This massive scope was enough…

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