A former Facebook engineer recounts the 2010 effort to ship Facebook's first video calling feature, built on a licensed Skype client before WebRTC was widely adopted. The story covers the small early Facebook Seattle office, product reviews with Mark Zuckerberg, frustrations with Skype's unreliable call-establishment technology and its dismissive engineering culture, the grueling six-week post-launch crunch, and reflections on how ubiquitous video calling has since become thanks to WebRTC.
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