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VISSL: A Contributor’s Story with Aanand Kainth

The “Contributor’s Story” series is intended to provide a face and voice to our major open source contributors and community members, an overview of the projects they are working on, and the successes and challenges contributors face when developing. ...

Open Source 2021

May 4, 2021

Facebook Joins Open Web Docs as Lead Funder

Facebook is excited to announce that it is sponsoring Open Web Docs as a lead funder and member of the Governing Committee. As a leading user of, and contributor to, web-based technologies and browsers, Facebook understands how important quality documentation is to the education and productivity of developers. “Together, Open Web Docs and...

Open Source 2021

May 4, 2021

ELI5: Pysa - A Security-Focused Static Analysis Tool for Python Code

In this post, we explain Pysa, a static analysis tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code, in a way that is super simple to understand (or as it’s commonly known online, ELI5. If you're interested in learning by watching or listening, check out a video about this open source project on our Facebook Open Source Youtube channel. ...

Open Source 2021

April 29, 2021

Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation

Facebook Open Source is excited to announce our support of Rust Foundation at its highest member tier. Alongside the other fellow foundation members, Facebook is committed to sustaining and growing the Rust open source ecosystem and community. “Facebook has embraced Rust since 2016 and utilizes it in all aspects of development, from source control...

Open Source 2021

April 29, 2021

Docusaurus: A Contributor’s Story with Lisa Chandra

Open Source 2021

April 27, 2021

ELI5: Ent - Schema as Code in Go

In this post, we take a closer look at an open source project called Ent, an entity framework for Go, in a way that is super simple to understand or as it’s commonly known online, ELI5. If you're interested in learning by watching or listening, check out a video about this open source project on our Facebook Open Source YouTube channel. Ent What...

Open Source 2021

April 26, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Chris Konstad

This article was written in collaboration with Chris Konstad, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Chris Konstad who is a Production Engineer on the Video Infrastructure team at Facebook. The Video Infrastructure team builds world-class video infra comprising live streaming, video processing, transcoding, storage and...

Open Source 2021

April 22, 2021

Pysa: A Contributor’s Story with Sarthak Khattar

The “Contributor’s Story” series is intended to provide a face and voice to our major open source ccontributors and community members, an overview of the projects they are working on, and the successes and challenges contributors face when developing. ...

Open Source 2021

April 20, 2021

ELI5: Infer - Finding Bugs Before You Ship

In this post, we take a closer look at Infer, a static analysis tool for programming languages like Java and C. This post is a part of our ELI5 series of short posts explaining complex projects in the simplest way possible. If you would like to watch a video about Infer, visit our YouTube channel. Why Infer? Catching software bugs in production is...

Open Source 2021

April 15, 2021