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- Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014) https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ 78 comments
- The Four Meta Secrets of Scaling at Facebook http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/10/the-four-meta-secrets-of-scaling-at-facebook.html 3 comments
- Facebook’s Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Hive-Hadoop 11 comments
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- Scaling Mercurial at Facebook https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ 21 comments scaling
- CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine for web-scale services https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/02/open-source/cachelib/ 2 comments javascript
- Scaling Facebook ads question https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/9v5hmd/scaling_facebook_ads_question/ 24 comments marketing
- Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f256ee86313 43 comments technology
- Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/egypt-begins-surveillance-of-facebook-twitter-and-skype-on-u 10 comments worldnews
- Scaling to 175mil users... The Facebook Architecture talk from Director of Engineering http://www.infoq.com/presentations/facebook-software-stack 4 comments programming
- 615000+ Facebook Credentials Stolen - Large Scale Phishing Campaign - Writeups from ThreatNix https://threatnix.io/blog/large-scale-phishing-campaign-affecting-615000-users-worldwide/ 34 comments netsec
- Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/facebook-scaled-back-voter-registration-kickoff 6 comments technology
- Facebook preferred Bitcoin, but created Libra because Bitcoin didn't scale https://twitter.com/PeterRizun/status/1169736600219029507?s=09 54 comments btc
- Facebook Engineer: iOS Can't Handle Our Scale http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/129756254607/q-why-is-the-facebook-app-so-large-a-ios-cant 391 comments programming
- Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2015/03/28/notes-from-facebook%27s-developer-infrastructure-at-scale-f8-talk/ 7 comments programming
- One trillion edges: Graph processing at Facebook-scale http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1804-ching.pdf 4 comments compsci
- Paper Notes: Scaling Memcache at Facebook https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2022/03/paper-notes-scaling-memcache-at-facebook/ 7 comments programming
- 'The Big Tobacco of Our Generation': Study Shows Huge Scale of Facebook Climate Lies https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/04/big-tobacco-our-generation-study-shows-huge-scale-facebook-climate-lies 27 comments technology
- Marketers struggle to track audiences after Facebook and Google scale back data for GDPR https://digiday.com/marketing/marketers-struggle-track-audiences-facebook-google-scale-back-data-gdpr/ 58 comments europe
- One trillion edges: graph processing at Facebook scale [pdf] http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1804-ching.pdf 4 comments programming
- Facebook: MVC Does Not Scale, Use Flux Instead http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/facebook-mvc-flux 378 comments programming
- 3,500 Facebook and Instagram ads show the scale of Russian manipulation in US Politics from 2015 to 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/10/here-are-the-3400-facebook-ads-purchased-by-russias-online-trolls-during-the-2016-election/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d3c3572390f7 3 comments politics
- Facebook scales back AI flagship after chatbots hit 70% failure rate https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/22/facebook_ai_fail/?mt=1488156902083 461 comments programming
- “Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed 23 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren's Feud With Facebook Over 'False' Ads Just Highlights The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191014/22010943192/elizabeth-warrens-feud-with-facebook-over-false-ads-just-highlights-impossibility-content-moderation-scale.shtml 388 comments technology
- Could Facebook Actually Nuke Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign? — Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t need to tip the scales in 2020. His platform will do that naturally. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/opinion/trump-warren-facebook.html 60 comments politics
- "Social Contagion": Social networks such as Reddit and Facebook influence our own emotions profoundly, large scale study shows. http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.short?rss=1&ssource=mfr 10 comments science
- High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook http://idleprocess.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/presentation-summary-high-performance-at-massive-scale-lessons-learned-at-facebook/ 59 comments programming
- Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/facebook-parent-meta-is-preparing-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-wsj/ar-AA13O4c3 23 comments technology
- Facebook gives users trustworthiness score. The social network says it has developed the scale to help it tackle fake news reports. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45257894 3 comments technology
- Facebook open-sources RacerD: Fast static race detection at scale https://code.facebook.com/posts/293371094514305 25 comments programming
- Record Labels Sue Russian Facebook Over Large-Scale Piracy http://torrentfreak.com/major-record-labels-sue-russian-facebook-piracy-140403/ 5 comments worldnews
- Facebook parent Meta preparing to announce large-scale layoffs this week, report says https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-layoffs-meta-zuckerberg-musk-b2219111.html 172 comments technology
- Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week, Wall Street Journal reports https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-parent-meta-is-preparing-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-wsj-2022-11-06/ 17 comments technology
- Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794 1436 comments technology
- Facebook Just Can’t Seem to Beat the Russians: Professional manipulators are infiltrating social media on a huge scale. But they’re more interested in cash than politics. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-06/facebook-just-can-t-seem-to-beat-the-russians 5 comments technology
- An Insight into Facebook Real-time Chat Architecture Scaling With Over Multi-Billion Messages Daily https://www.8bitmen.com/facebook-real-time-chat-architecture-scaling-with-over-multi-billion-messages-daily/ 66 comments programming
- The Cambridge Analytica Con: What Cambridge Analytica is accused of doing—siphoning people’s data, compiling profiles and then deploying that information to influencing them to vote for a certain way—Facebook and Google do every minute we’re logged on, on a far greater and more invasive scale. https://thebaffler.com/latest/cambridge-analytica-con-levine 7 comments technology
- Science AMA Series: We are Gonçalo Abecasis and Scott Vrieze, researchers leading Genes for Good, a large scale study of genes, health and behavior taking place on Facebook. Ask us and our team anything! https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4qr8mx/science_ama_series_we_are_gon%C3%A7alo_abecasis_and/ 114 comments science
- Facebook silently manipulated user news feeds in a large scale psychological experiment. This was only publicly revealed when the results paper was published (cross-post /r/psychology) http://www.scilogs.com/next_regeneration/how-does-your-facebook-news-feed-affect-you/ 62 comments privacy
- Facebook performs a massive experiment, selectively hiding posts on news feeds: "Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks" http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full 76 comments science