Hacker News
- MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec https://engineering.fb.com/2024/06/13/web/mlow-metas-low-bitrate-audio-codec/ 197 comments
- Threads Has Entered the Fediverse https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/ 6 comments
- Meta Loves Python https://engineering.fb.com/2024/02/12/developer-tools/meta-loves-python/ 44 comments
- Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta https://engineering.fb.com/2024/02/07/production-engineering/simple-precision-time-protocol-sptp-meta/ 85 comments
- Building end-to-end security for Messenger https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/ 385 comments
- The inside story of Threads https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/ 97 comments
- Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution https://engineering.fb.com/2022/06/08/core-data/cache-invalidation/ 193 comments
- Running BGP in large-scale data centers https://engineering.fb.com/2021/05/13/data-center-engineering/bgp/ 40 comments
- Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (2014) https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ 78 comments
- Scaling Services with Shard Manager https://engineering.fb.com/production-engineering/scaling-services-with-shard-manager/ 5 comments
- Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code https://engineering.fb.com/security/pysa/ 26 comments
- LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ 321 comments
- Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/hydra/ 49 comments
Lobsters
- NTP: Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale https://engineering.fb.com/production-engineering/ntp-service/ 7 comments networking
- Looking for a React conference video from a few years ago... https://engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/facebook-redesign/ 4 comments reactjs
- Sapling: Source control that’s user-friendly and scalable https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/ 24 comments linux
- MemLab - a framework developed by Meta for detecting JavaScript memory leaks https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/12/open-source/memlab/ 123 comments programming
- Facebook Open Sources MemLab: A framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/12/open-source/memlab/ 23 comments javascript
- Transparent memory offloading: more memory at a fraction of the cost and power https://engineering.fb.com/2022/06/20/data-infrastructure/transparent-memory-offloading-more-memory-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost-and-power/ 18 comments linux
- Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution https://engineering.fb.com/2022/06/08/core-data/cache-invalidation/ 2 comments programming
- Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/11/open-source/jest-openjs-foundation/ 8 comments programming
- Meta Open Source is transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation https://engineering.fb.com/2022/05/11/open-source/jest-openjs-foundation/ 35 comments javascript
- Facebook postmortem: More details about the October 4 outage https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ 9 comments sre
- More details about the October 4 outage https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ 8 comments programming
- Facebook Engineering: Update about the October 4th outage https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage/ 32 comments programming
- How WhatsApp is enabling end-to-end encrypted backups https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/10/security/whatsapp-e2ee-backups/ 50 comments android
- CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine for web-scale services https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/02/open-source/cachelib/ 2 comments javascript
- Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/ 4 comments database
- Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/ 41 comments programming
- Tectonic file system: Consolidating storage infra - Facebook Engineering https://engineering.fb.com/2021/06/21/data-infrastructure/tectonic-file-system/ 2 comments filesystems
- Tech stack rebuild for a new Facebook.com https://engineering.fb.com/2020/05/08/web/facebook-redesign/ 61 comments programming
- CG/SQL: Easy, accurate SQLite code generation, aka stored procedures for SQLite https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/cg-sql/ 14 comments programming
- Facebook releases Retrie, a Haskell refactoring tool https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/retrie/ 24 comments programming
- Retrie: Haskell refactoring made easy - Facebook Engineering https://engineering.fb.com/open-source/retrie/ 16 comments haskell
- Rebuilding our tech stack for a new Facebook.com https://engineering.fb.com/web/facebook-redesign/ 143 comments webdev
- Facebook NTP service https://engineering.fb.com/production-engineering/ntp-service/ 27 comments programming
- "Rather than reinventing the wheel, we used the UI framework available on the device’s native OS... This reduced not only size, by avoiding the need to cache/load large custom-built frameworks, but also complexity. The native frameworks don’t have to be translated into sub-frameworks." https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ 4 comments swift
- Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/messenger/ 14 comments programming
- Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh win Most Influential ICFP Paper Award https://engineering.fb.com/security/simon-marlow/ 13 comments haskell
- Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour (Facebook Engineering) https://engineering.fb.com/data-infrastructure/scribe/ 4 comments programming