Facebook Timeline was created in just 6 months

by on January 6th, 2012 1

Facebook took just 6 months to build the Timeline, the company revealed today.

Timeline started as a project in late 2010 with two full-time engineers, an engineering intern, and a designer building a working demo in a single night. The full team ramped up in early 2011, when the development team was split into design, front-end engineering, infrastructure engineering, and data migrations, and the team worked together for six months to create the Timeline.

“In retrospect, that’s pretty crazy. We had to move a lot of mountains to go from the initial infrastructure review meeting to successfully turning on the 100% backend load test in just six months. Done another way, this project could have taken twice as long – and that’s being generous,” Ryan Mack, an infrastructure engineer at Facebook, writes on the Facebook blog.

Apart from putting in great deal of design thinking into giving Facebook profiles a fresh new look, building the Timeline feature also involved exhaustive work on the engineering front.

“While our earlier profile pages surfaced a few days or weeks of activity, from the onset we knew that with Timeline we had to think in terms of years and even decades. At a high level we needed to scan, aggregate, and rank posts, shares, photos and check-ins to surface the most significant events over years of Facebook activity,” Facebook adds.

While there are some who prefer to stick to the old Facebook profile, there are many who absolutely love Facebook’s Timeline profiles. So, we can say that Facebook has finally reaped the rewards of those 6 months of hard work.

 

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