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Facebook Touts Gear That Will Reinvent the Network Engineer

Each month, Facebook puts up advertisements for new coding projects on its internal network. They’re called Hack-a-Month-Projects. The idea is simple. Engineering staff can try working on new problems, and if they end up liking what they’re doing, they get to switch teams.

It’s a way of keeping Facebook’s hackers challenged, but lately, something’s been happening there that makes Najam Ahmad extremely happy. He’s the director of Facebook’s network engineering team — one of the people here who is working to change the DNA of the world’s computer networks. Over the past year, he says, folks from Facebook’s software group have been signing up for network engineering jobs.

By Robert McMillan

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/facebook_network/

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