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Rust Nibbles - Gazebo: Comparisons

This article was written in collaboration with Bob Yang, a Software Engineer in the Developer Infrastructure organization at Facebook. The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In...

Open Source 2021

July 27, 2021

Introducing Data Protection Assessment

Today, we’re sharing our latest initiative to safeguard how people’s data is being managed and protected on our platforms - the Data Protection Assessment. This is the next step among several initiatives we’ve introduced over the last year to ensure we are continuously making progress towards our commitment to people’s privacy and data security -...

Developer Policy Platforms

July 22, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Eric Kuecks

This article was written in collaboration with Eric Kuecks, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Eric Kuecks who is a Production Engineer on the Core Data Staging team at Facebook. The Core Data Staging team works on integration testing for the cache and database stack at Facebook. While working on this team, Eric has...

Open Source 2021

July 22, 2021

Rust Nibbles - Gazebo: AnyLifetime

This article was written in collaboration with Neil Mitchell, a Software Engineer in the Developer Infrastructure organization at Facebook. The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In...

Open Source 2021

July 20, 2021

ELI5: CrypTen — Secure machine learning with PyTorch

Machine Learning (ML) researchers who would like to work with data that must be encrypted, either for legal reasons or to ensure privacy, historically have had very limited tools for building secure ML systems. Because we shouldn’t expect ML researchers to also be cryptography experts, CrypTen was created to provide a framework to easily enable...

Open Source 2021

July 19, 2021

Rust Nibbles - Gazebo: Variants

Open Source 2021

July 13, 2021

Rust Nibbles - Gazebo : Dupe

Open Source 2021

July 6, 2021

ELI5: Captum - Easily Interpret AI Models

Artificial Intelligence is often described as a “black box”; we plug inputs in and the AI model gives us an output back, but we don’t have an easy way to understand how the model came to produce that output. The process to train AI generally goes like this - we submit inputs into a computer, train the computer to obtain an AI model, and use this...

Open Source 2021

July 6, 2021

The future of Buck

When Buck was unveiled at Facebook Mobile DevCon in 2013, it was a fast Android build system. Since then, it's expanded to support building applications written in 15+ languages and targeting platforms from mobile phones to servers to smart devices to VR headsets and more. Since that time, many users have found Buck to be a very powerful, fast...

Open Source 2021

July 1, 2021