Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient - IEEE Spectrum

Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient - IEEE Spectrum

By Tekla Perry Photo: Facebook "Engineering productivity is hard to measure," said Peter Seibel , the tech lead of Twitter's engineering effectiveness group. "But we certainly can harm it." Seibel was speaking at @Scale , a conference hosted this week by Facebook that brought together 1,800 software engineers from some 400 companies—all building applications that will potentially be used by millions or billions of people. Seibel told the story of the evolution of software at Twitter—a Babel of different programming languages including Ruby, Java, and Scala that made it hard for different groups of engineers to work together, but was eventually (mostly) fixed. "As an industry we know how to scale up software," he said. "We also know how to scale up organizations, to put in management that lets thousands of people work together." "But we don't have a handle on how to scale up that intersection between engineering and human organization.

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