Cloud and infrastructure
Meta Engineering
0.9× since 2022engineering.fb.com · 1,085 posts · 1.3M words · May 2008 to Aug 2026
213 of 220 months in that span carried a post, 7 none. 4 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
1.45
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.65
Em dashes counted
2,283
Posts with at least one
56%
Em dashes per post
Monthly41.00
12-month average3.79
Meta Engineering, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 201 | 3.51 | 1.59 | 58% |
| 2025 | 69 | 100 | 1.00 | 1.12 | 39% |
| 2024 | 57 | 37 | 0.48 | 1.46 | 19% |
| 2023 | 45 | 55 | 0.88 | 1.28 | 36% |
| 2022 | 48 | 127 | 1.46 | 0.42 | 69% |
| 2021 | 49 | 91 | 1.47 | 0.27 | 61% |
| 2020 | 46 | 120 | 1.64 | 0.10 | 70% |
| 2019 | 77 | 126 | 1.51 | 0.12 | 61% |
| 2018 | 96 | 237 | 2.03 | 0.16 | 64% |
| 2017 | 79 | 232 | 2.36 | 0.13 | 77% |
| 2016 | 105 | 399 | 2.89 | 0.20 | 75% |
| 2015 | 96 | 277 | 2.96 | 0.15 | 78% |
| 2014 | 61 | 90 | 1.26 | 2.25 | 51% |
| 2013 | 40 | 21 | 0.45 | 2.69 | 28% |
| 2012 | 62 | 83 | 1.49 | 0.93 | 56% |
| 2011 | 54 | 54 | 1.17 | 0.97 | 43% |
| 2010 | 32 | 13 | 0.45 | 0.96 | 19% |
| 2009 | 22 | 20 | 1.07 | 1.33 | 23% |
| 2008 | 11 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.78 | 0% |