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How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta

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221 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 21 Nov 22 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.498s | source
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CapmCrackaWaka ◴[21 Nov 22 18:45 UTC] No.33696266[source]▶
Why do so many tech companies seem to be releasing “secret sauce” for free lately? I see a lot of posts lately detailing how inner production systems work at large companies, and while I’m grateful, I’m curious why the higher ups think it’s worthwhile to release this information.
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1. madsmith ◴[21 Nov 22 20:08 UTC] No.33697255[source]▶
1) it makes the engineers happy to be able to speak about the interesting projects they are working on and give back to the wider community.

2) it serves as a venue for attracting other talented candidates who are likewise minded on working on technical problems.

3) when I was employed of FB it was a relatively flat hierarchy, which is to say there weren’t that many higher ups to convince that this should be done.