Optimizing for Time: Dark Matter

Much of the work in the productivity space is focused on build speed or tooling improvements. Although beneficial, there is a larger opportunity available: Non-coding time.

Standup updates, XFN alignment, chat, email, task management. All of these constitute the “Dark Matter” overhead that engineers have to deal with on a daily basis.

We’ll dive into how Meta measures time, many of Meta’s top-line velocity metrics, and even some insights you can implement today, in order to help your engineers be more productive.