5: Engineering Management with Balazs

This episode features Balazs, a manager on the Image Infra team, who joins Mihaela and Pascal to shed some light on what it's like to be an engineering manager at Facebook. Balazs talks about some of the projects he's worked on as an Android engineer after he joined Facebook and shares how and why he transitioned to management, starting this new role in the Fresco team. Balazs is now managing a team that is focused on performance and he shares some insights on the unique challenges his team is solving and how he fits in that as an engineering manager. As usual, the episode starts off with a quick discussion on the latest Facebook Open-Source news and upcoming Android talks.

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Projects discussed:

- Fizz: https://code.fb.com/networking-traffic/deploying-tls-1-3-at-scale-with-fizz-a-performant-open-source-tls-library/
- XAR: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/xars-a-more-efficient-open-source-system-for-self-contained-executables/
- Fresco: http://frescolib.org/
- Profilio: https://code.fb.com/android/profilo-understanding-app-performance-in-the-wild/
- Redex: https://github.com/facebook/redex

Talks:
- Droidcon: http://uk.droidcon.com/
- Londroid: https://www.meetup.com/android/