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Below: a time travelling resource monitoring tool

In this blog post we introduce below, an Apache 2.0 licensed resource monitor for modern Linux systems. below was designed and developed by the resource control team at Facebook to view and record historical Linux system data. The resource control team, as the name suggests, is responsible for resource management of Linux systems at scale. ...

Open Source 2021

September 21, 2021

ELI5: Bento - Interactive Notebook that Empowers Development Collaboration & Best Practices

In this series, we discuss a lot of open source projects; however, today will be slightly different. We will be learning about Bento, a project built off of the open source project Jupyter and is now used internally at Facebook to help data scientists and ML engineers share code and collaborate interactively. In this blog post, we explain Bento...

Open Source 2021

September 20, 2021

Async stack traces in folly: Introduction

This article was written by Lee Howes and Lewis Baker from Facebook. Facebook’s infrastructure is highly distributed and relies heavily on asynchronous programming. Most of our services that are written in C++ are implemented using async programming frameworks like folly::Futures and folly::coro. Async programming is an important tool for scaling a...

Open Source 2021

September 16, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans : Brendon Daugherty

This article was written in collaboration with Brendon Daugherty, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Brendon Daugherty who is a Production Engineer on the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Resources team at Facebook. The IaaS team works on building tools and systems to better manage Facebook’s infrastructure at...

Open Source 2021

September 9, 2021

ELI5: Open Compute Project — Advancing Hardware Technologies Through Open Source

While the concept of leveraging open source communities to help build robust and efficient projects is quite common in software, applying open source principles and practice to hardware at scale was almost unheard of. In April of 2011, Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) with help from other computing leaders with the purpose to...

Open Source 2021

September 7, 2021

ELI5: Zstandard - Smaller and faster data compression

In this blog post, we explain Zstandard (ZSTD), a fast data compression algorithm that offers best-in-kind performance, in a way that is super simple to understand. 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. Why Zstandard? Zstandard (ZSTD)...

Open Source 2021

August 23, 2021

Meet the Rustaceans: Gus Wynn

This article was written in collaboration with Gus Wynn, a Production Engineer at Facebook. For today’s interview, we have Gus Wynn who is a Production Engineer on the hardware health diagnosis team at Facebook. The hardware health diagnosis team works on providing a platform for the collection and analysis of hardware-related data at scale. While...

Open Source 2021

August 19, 2021

Rust Nibbles - Gazebo: The rest of the tent

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....

Open Source 2021

August 10, 2021

ELI5: RocksDB - Fast Data Storage

Intro If you are looking for an open source storage engine library with a key/value interface, look no further. Open sourced in 2013, RocksDB continues to be widely used in the community and at Facebook to manage persistent data and server queries. Broadly, RocksDB is known to be particularly suited for flash drives, as well as pure memory, hard...

Open Source 2021

August 9, 2021