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Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster(engineering.fb.com)

75 points by stokedmartin 7 days ago | 31 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post describing Prometheus, Meta's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster and the data center and networking work behind it.

Delta: Highly available, strongly consistent storage using chain replication (2022)(engineering.fb.com)

26 points by grep_it 1 month ago | 2 comments

Meta engineering blog post describing Delta, an internal highly available, strongly consistent storage service built on chain replication.

AI for American-produced cement and concrete(engineering.fb.com)

204 points by latchkey 6 months ago | 115 comments

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc(engineering.fb.com)

495 points by hahahacorn 7 months ago | 226 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post announcing Meta's renewed investment in and commitment to maintaining the open-source jemalloc memory allocator.

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale(engineering.fb.com)

200 points by sudhakaran88 7 months ago | 83 comments

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp(engineering.fb.com)

225 points by ubj 9 months ago | 112 comments

The React Foundation(engineering.fb.com)

276 points by DanielHB 1 year ago | 304 comments

OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework(engineering.fb.com)

376 points by terrelln 1 year ago | 87 comments

Meta Engineering blog post introducing OpenZL, an open source format-aware data compression framework.

Kangaroo: A flash cache optimized for tiny objects (2021)(engineering.fb.com)

15 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 1 comments

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python(engineering.fb.com)

211 points by homarp 1 year ago | 135 comments

Building Private Processing for AI Tools on WhatsApp(engineering.fb.com)

15 points by 3s 1 year ago | 13 comments

Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology(engineering.fb.com)

161 points by birdculture 1 year ago | 47 comments

Indexing Code at Scale with Glean(engineering.fb.com)

114 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 27 comments

Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)(engineering.fb.com)

87 points by droideqa 1 year ago | 60 comments

Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin(engineering.fb.com)

203 points by ermatt 1 year ago | 221 comments

Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring(engineering.fb.com)

60 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 19 comments

Meta's open AI hardware vision(engineering.fb.com)

198 points by GavCo 2 years ago | 110 comments

Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta(engineering.fb.com)

207 points by Maro 2 years ago | 107 comments

Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)(engineering.fb.com)

66 points by lordleft 2 years ago | 58 comments

Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale(engineering.fb.com)

32 points by seanieb 2 years ago | 39 comments

Leveraging AI for efficient incident response(engineering.fb.com)

92 points by Amaresh 2 years ago | 46 comments

A RoCE network for distributed AI training at scale(engineering.fb.com)

71 points by mikece 2 years ago | 11 comments

DCPerf: An open source benchmark suite for hyperscale compute applications(engineering.fb.com)

40 points by mikece 2 years ago | 1 comments

Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta(engineering.fb.com)

86 points by samber 2 years ago | 50 comments

MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec(engineering.fb.com)

551 points by mikece 2 years ago | 188 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post introducing MLow, Meta's low bitrate audio codec for real-time calling.

How Meta trains large language models at scale(engineering.fb.com)

362 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 183 comments

Engineering at Meta blog post describing the software, hardware, and network considerations behind training large language models at scale in production.

Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure(engineering.fb.com)

636 points by mootpt 2 years ago | 291 comments

Meta engineering blog post describing its large GPU training clusters for generative AI, including RDMA and InfiniBand networking, Grand Teton hardware, and storage.

Meta Loves Python(engineering.fb.com)

26 points by belter 2 years ago | 25 comments

Code Verify: An open source browser extension for verifying code authenticity(engineering.fb.com)

48 points by harporoeder 2 years ago | 23 comments

Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta(engineering.fb.com)

193 points by atg_abhishek 2 years ago | 75 comments

How meta built the infrastructure for Threads(engineering.fb.com)

135 points by trojanalert 2 years ago | 131 comments

Building end-to-end security for Messenger(engineering.fb.com)

261 points by contact9879 2 years ago | 347 comments

Writing and linting Python at scale(engineering.fb.com)

98 points by el_duderino 2 years ago | 82 comments

Automating Dead Code Cleanup(engineering.fb.com)

94 points by dangoldin 3 years ago | 19 comments

The inside story of Threads(engineering.fb.com)

77 points by jshchnz 3 years ago | 66 comments

Meta developer tools: Working at scale(engineering.fb.com)

210 points by ot 3 years ago | 162 comments

Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)(engineering.fb.com)

48 points by luu 3 years ago | 39 comments

Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp(engineering.fb.com)

188 points by snowboarder63 3 years ago | 162 comments

Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta(engineering.fb.com)

53 points by devtailz 3 years ago | 39 comments

Buck2: Our open source build system(engineering.fb.com)

327 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 213 comments

Meta Engineering blog post announcing the open source release of Buck2, its large-scale build system.