• With $1 billion users, an open hardware project that in 3 years has shifted the fortunes of the server industry and a new, audacious project to connect the unconnected, Facebook’s infrastructure is built on pushing the envelope of what’s possible. So how does it decide when it’s time to focus on some engineer’s good idea? How does it think about open sourcing a competitive advantage? We’ll ask Jay Parikh how to see the forrest for the trees at the worlds largest social network.

    Speaker

    Jay Parikh — VP, Infrastructure Engineering, Facebook

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speaker

    VP, Infrastructure Engineering

    Jay Parikh is vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook. More…

    About the Moderator

    Gigaom
    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on More…