News for Developers

Build a Smart Bookmarking Tool with Rust and Rocket

One of my favorite tools that exists internally is our smart bookmarking tool commonly referred to as “bunnylol.” Originally named bunny1 and open sourced, it’s what we use to navigate across all tools, wikis, knowledge bases, and everything else one might use working at Facebook. An example of a bookmark I use often is the cal command. I can type...

Open Source Platforms

June 3, 2020

Facebook and Microsoft Partnering on Remote Development

We’re making Visual Studio Code the default development environment at Facebook and teaming with Microsoft to help enhance their remote development extensions in an effort to enable engineers to do remote development at scale.History Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some...

Open Source 2019

November 19, 2019

PyTorch Adds New Dev Tools as it Hits Production Scale

Since its release just a few months ago, PyTorch 1.0 has been rapidly adopted as a powerful, flexible deep learning platform that enables engineers and researchers to move quickly from research to production. As part of Facebook’s F8 Conference this year, we are highlighting some of the ways the AI engineering and research community is using...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

May 1, 2019

Day 2 of F8 2018: Developer News Roundup

Day 1 of F8 was packed full of important developer news, including details on our enhanced app review process, the release of Graph API 3.0, and several new products — check out our F8 Day 1 Developer Roundup to dig into all the updates. Day 2 of F8 continued the momentum, especially on the important topic of artificial intelligence. Here are just...

Artificial Intelligence Business Tools

May 2, 2018

Announcing PyTorch 1.0 for both research and production

The path for taking AI development from research to production has historically involved multiple steps and tools, making it time-intensive and complicated to test new approaches, deploy them, and iterate to improve accuracy and performance. To help accelerate and optimize this process, we're introducing PyTorch 1.0, the next version of our open...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

May 2, 2018

ONNX expansion speeds AI development

In the beginning of the recent deep learning revolution, researchers had only a handful of tools (such as Torch, Theano, and Caffe) to work with, but today there is a robust ecosystem of deep learning frameworks and hardware runtimes. While this growing toolbox is extremely useful, each framework has the potential to become an island unto itself...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

May 2, 2018

Ringmark Performance Tests and Coremob Meeting

We're excited to announce a handful of updates to the Coremob W3C Community Group and Ringmark.Ringmark is Completely Open SourceSince the beginning of the project, we've been committed to open sourcing Ringmark in the spirit of transparency and to enable developers all over the world to contribute....

Open Source 2012

June 14, 2012

W3C and Ringmark Updates

Ever since we launched the Coremob W3C Community Group and open sourced Ringmark, we've seen a flurry of activity from folks involved in Coremob and changes in the proposed specs. As a result, we've been actively making changes to Ringmark to keep it up to date.Tests Submitted to CoremobNext week, Robin Berjon (co-chair of Coremob) will begin...