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How Fb Catches Insects in Its 100 Million Traces of Code

For the previous 4 years, Fb has quietly used a homegrown instrument referred to as Zoncolan to search out insects in its huge codebase.
For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase.

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Author: Wired

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