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Facebook Open-Sources PyText NLP Modeling Framework
Facebook AI Research is open-sourcing PyText, a natural-language-processing (NLP) modeling framework that is used in the Portal video-calling device and M Suggestions in Facebook Messenger.
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Facebook Open-Sources DeepFocus, Bringing More Realistic Images to Virtual Reality
In a recent blog post, Facebook announced they have open-sourced DeepFocus, an AI powered framework for improving focus on close objects. This technology ensures nearby objects are in-focus, while distant objects appear out of focus, much like cinematic experiences. DeepFocus takes advantage of an end-to-end convolutional neural network that produces an accurate retinal blur in near real-time.
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Facebook Spectrum Improves Reliability of Image Upload on iOS and Android
Facebook Spectrum is a new open-source image processing library for iOS and Android that aims to make the upload process for images more efficient and reliable, striving for the best balance between image quality and file size.
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Splitting Stateful Services across Continents at Instagram
At the recent Large Installation System Administration (LISA) 2018 Conference, Sherry Xiao, production engineer at Instagram, explained how their team split Instagram’s services across datacenters in the US and Europe. They achieved data locality in their stateful services - Cassandra and TAO - by using new and modified tools from Facebook’s engineering team.
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RSocket, a New Application Network Protocol for Reactive Applications, Announced at SpringOne
Announced at the SpringOne Platform conference in Washington DC, RSocket is a new layer 7, language-agnostic application network protocol. It is a bi-directional, multiplexed, message-based, binary protocol based on Reactive Streams back pressure.
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Facebook Open Sources LogDevice - a Distributed Data Store for Log Storage
Facebook open sourced their internal distributed log storage project called LogDevice. It offers high write availability using replication, durable log storage and recovery from failure.
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Scaling Network Automation at Facebook Using Zero-Touch Provisioning
Facebook’s global network consists of both wide-area backbone networks and edge Points-of-Presence, which support end-user facing requests and internal traffic. To meet increased provisioning and maintenance demands, the network engineering team built Vending Machine - a workflow framework that utilizes Zero Touch Provisioning to perform any kind of configuration on network devices.
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The Power of Serendipity and Networking
Meeting new people gets you out of your own head. It’s a good way to get outside perspective on your projects and look at them in new ways. A conversation with someone who works in a completely different field could spark the idea that changes your company. Focus on meeting people who share your values and interests, and make networking part of your daily habits.
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Facebook Sonar Is a Visual and Interactive Debugging Tool for Mobile Apps
Facebook Sonar is an open-source toolset that aims to help developers inspect and understand the structure and behaviour of iOS and Android apps in a visually rich, interactive, and extensible way.
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The Lowdown on Face Recognition Technology
Facial recognition is a direct application of machine learning that is being deployed far and wide to consumers, in the industry and to law enforcement agencies with potential benefits in our daily lives as well as serious concerns for privacy. facial recognition models show above human performances but real world implementation remains problematic for some applications.
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Firefox Releases Facebook Container Extension
Firefox has released an extension that it claims will stop the company snooping on users’ non-Facebook web traffic. The Facebook Container extension isolates users' identities to a separate container tab, which makes it harder for Facebook to track other web activity.
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Twitter Passwords May Be Compromised, Could Be One of the Largest Data Breaches in History
On May 3 Twitter announced that they had uncovered and fixed a bug that had resulted in users' passwords being stored in plaintext. No information has been released on how many users were affected, and all users are being recommended to change their passwords. If all users were in fact compromised, this would be the one of the largest known data breaches in history.
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Facebook Releases Open Source "Detectron" Deep-Learning Library for Object Detection
Recent releases from Facebook and Google implement the most current deep-learning algorithms to take a crack at the challenging problem of machine object detection.
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Handling Traffic Spikes from Global Events at Facebook Live
Facebook Live’s engineers talked about how they scale their systems to handle traffic from both predicted and unpredicted events. While the latter is handled by their global distributed architecture, the former involves careful advance planning and load testing.
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Should Teams Decouple Cadences?
Recently a Twitter discussion took place about allowing teams to have multiple cadences, for instance by using a different rhythm for planning the work and for learning and improving. Decoupling cadences gives teams room to explore and learn what works best for them; it can lead to more adaptability and autonomy and better outcomes.