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Re:Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring by pdpi on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @06:27PM (#42323190)
When I was there, the experience here would've been more like "you see some comms on Workplace saying this thing went live".

For a small number of people, it would look like "It's your oncall week, and you unexpectedly receive a large diff stack from a complete stranger". Most engineers at Meta won't touch anything related to C++ during their tenure there, and you can safely assume all this stuff would be abstracted away from them.

If you are on a C++ project, odds are that your experience here would be "I'm on-call and got pinged by a random person saying they were submitting a diff stack to implement this feature". Except if your project was sufficiently large, you'd probably have known about this ages ago so the diff wouldn't actually be unexpected, nor the submitter a complete stranger.

Re:Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring by yodsanklai on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:21PM (#42323853)
> you'd probably have known about this ages

but nobody paid attention and it falls on oncall's plate

Re:Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring by bagels on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:18PM (#42324151)
Sure, sometimes I got a bunch of automod diffs. Sometimes it was: fix this now. It's impossible to know everything that every infra team is cooking up.