Former Facebook Engineer Starts Interana to Sift Data Mountains
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After Facebook Inc. grew so large that software glitches became harder to find, engineers built tools to spot errors amid mountains of data. One startup is betting the technology may be useful to other companies as well.
When Facebook was young, the part of the homepage that told you if it was someone’s birthday chewed up 30 percent of the available computers that kept it running. No one realized until they ran some tests and discovered it was “doing terrible things,” said Bobby Johnson, who ran engineering for Facebook and co-founded Interana Inc., which announced $8.2 million in funding today.