News for Developers

2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge regional winners announced

It’s often said that one of the best ways to learn is to become the teacher. That’s why, for this year’s Developer Circles Community Challenge, we invited developers and creators to put an innovative spin on technical education by creating tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies. Participants created step-by-step written...

Augmented Reality Open Source

November 18, 2020

ELI5: Fresco - Image Management Library for Android

In this post, we explain Fresco, a powerful system for displaying images in Android applications, 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 2020

November 16, 2020

PyTorch Tutorials Refresh - Behind the Scenes

Hi, I’m Jessica, a Developer Advocate on the Facebook Open Source team. In this blog, I’ll take you behind the scenes to show you how Facebook supports and sustains our open source products - specifically PyTorch, an open source deep learning library. With every new release version, PyTorch pushes out new features, updates existing ones, and adds ...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

October 7, 2020

Build a Discord Bot with Rust and Serenity

By Joe PreviteDiscord is on the rise in developer communities. And, as we all know, developers love building on top of platforms they use. It’s fun! ...

Open Source Platforms

September 30, 2020

Connecting a web app to your PyTorch model using Amazon SageMaker

Author: Cami WilliamsHello fellow programmers, it is me, Cami Williams, your friendly neighborhood open source Developer Advocate, back at it again with a PyTorch blog post. ...

Artificial Intelligence Open Source

August 3, 2020

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