Facebook Connectivity has been prototyping SuperCell, a wide-area coverage solution for increasing mobile connectivity in rural communities. | Continue reading
We're sharing the results of studies showing the economic impact that subsea cables and broadband connectivity have had across Sub-Saharan Africa. | Continue reading
Coupling COPA with QUIC gave us a single tunable solution that works for a variety of video experiences without requiring modification of the kernel. | Continue reading
FioSynth is a benchmark tool used to automate the execution of storage workload suites that's useful for predicting how a storage device will perform. | Continue reading
With Twine, we converted our infrastructure from siloed pools of customized machines to a ubiquitous shared infras where any machine can run any workload. | Continue reading
Nemo allows engineers to quickly discover the information they need, with high confidence in the accuracy of the results. | Continue reading
We built a system capable of managing both UGC and broadcast quality hi-res streaming — and working reliably for billions of people around the world. | Continue reading
Implementing QUIC is the latest step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for people on our services. | Continue reading
We built a system capable of managing both UGC and broadcast quality hi-res streaming — and working reliably for billions of people around the world. | Continue reading
Implementing QUIC is the latest step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for people on our services. | Continue reading
Nemo allows engineers to quickly discover the information they need, with high confidence in the accuracy of the results. | Continue reading
Throughput autoscaling estimates a service’s capacity requirements based on the amount of work that the service needs to perform throughout the day. | Continue reading
How optimal workload placement allows our systems to tolerate sub-data center faults. | Continue reading
Twine maintains service availability across millions of machines. ZooKeeper provides the primitives that allow distributed systems to handle faults. | Continue reading
At the fourth annual TIP Summit in Amsterdam, TIP demonstrated momentum on a range of initiatives including new network deployments and trials. | Continue reading
We look at how Shard Manager is fully integrated in Facebook's infrastructure ecosystem and provides a holistic, end-to-end solution supporting basic shard failover as well as sophisticated load balancing, shard scaling, and operational safety. | Continue reading
We built Async to manage the different levels of urgency for different types of asynchronous requests. We’ve reimagined it to scale to billions of requests. | Continue reading
DELF is a new deletion framework designed to help developers implement data deletion in modern applications. | Continue reading
Pysa is an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. | Continue reading
As part of our recent redesign of Facebook.com, we took advantage of recent React improvements to build accessibility into the foundation | Continue reading
We've built a data classification system to detect where an organization’s data is located within different systems in a fast and scalable manner. | Continue reading
Facebook Connectivity, with partners, is testing an aerial fiber deployment solution that uses a robot to safely deploy fiber-optic cable on MV power lines. | Continue reading
We're releasing our Sustainability Report, which provides a closer look at our sustainability progress and commitment to address climate change. | Continue reading
We are open-sourcing Retrie, a code refactoring tool for Haskell that enables faster, easier, and safer codemodding for developers. | Continue reading
Providing Discover for free browsing while keeping people safe from potential security risks was a tough technical challenge. | Continue reading
We've partnered with African and global operators to build the most comprehensive subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region. | Continue reading
SoftSKU optimizes existing server processors for a specific microservice. Accelerometer is an analytical model that predicts gains from these optimizations. | Continue reading
In this AI blog roundup, we shed light on the Smart Camera that powers Portal, Yann LeCun discusses the future of deep learning hardware, and more. | Continue reading
Building a new web app for today’s browsers, we completely rebuilt our tech stack to achieve our goals for performance and sustainable future growth. | Continue reading
Turbine’s task scheduler evenly balances workload fluctuation across clusters, and the autoscaler effectively handles unplanned load spikes. | Continue reading
Sapienz technology leverages automated test design to make the testing process faster, more comprehensive, and more effective. [...]Read More... | Continue reading
We've improved time precision within our infrastructure from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds, and released our own public NTP service. | Continue reading
To build this new version of Messenger, we needed to rebuild the architecture from the ground up and rewrite the entire codebase. | Continue reading
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To simplify the process of selecting the right hash table, we built F14, part of Folly, our open source library of C++ components. | Continue reading
A new tool allows people to transfer photos and videos directly from Facebook to Google Photos. The beta release is available in Ireland. | Continue reading
CCSM is an anomaly-detection framework that uses contrast set mining techniques to locate statistically interesting sets of features in groups. | Continue reading
A new framework for fast dimensional analysis automates root cause analysis to help engineers investigate issues and quickly find solutions. | Continue reading
To implement the new generation of Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) here at Facebook, we built Fizz, a robust, highly performant TLS library. | Continue reading
The @Scale Conference is an invitation-only technical event for engineers who work on large-scale platforms and technologies. | Continue reading
Delegated credentials is an extremely effective method for securing TLS certificates and is in the process of being adopted as a standard by IETF. | Continue reading
SIGPLAN awards Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh a Most Influential ICFP Paper for the 2009 paper, “Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.” | Continue reading
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We're exploring a new approach to reporting events with greater anonymity while still combatting fraud by using techniques like blind signatures. | Continue reading
Scribe is a distributed, buffered queueing system that encapsulates all the complexity behind moving service logs from point A to point B. | Continue reading
Hydra makes it easier to add functionality to projects and dramatically reduces the need for some forms of boilerplate code. | Continue reading