Registration for F8 Refresh is now open. Join your global developer community virtually on June 2nd, where you will be able to learn about the latest products and innovations across Facebook technologies, and how we can build together, grow together. T...

We’re excited to share a roundup of new messaging features and recent updates that help you better express yourself, find what you need and stay connected.
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Today, the Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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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 docume...

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....

We’re partnering with leading mental health experts around the world to offer support and encouraging people to check in with each other.
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This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the diversity and impact of Asians and Pacific Islanders while also raising awareness of issues the community is facing.
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Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is officially joining the nonprofit Rust Foundation. Alongside fellow members including Mozilla (the creators of Rust), AWS, Microsoft, and Google, Facebook will be working to [...]
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Facebook is excited to announce that it has joined the Rust Foundation as a Platinum member. Alongside the other fellow foundation members, Facebook is committed to sustaining and growing the Rust open source ecosystem and community.

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, ...

We're publishing a white paper on how we’re protecting privacy and addressing the urgent needs of public health authorities and researchers in our COVID-19 initiatives.
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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....

Say you receive an email notification that a service is crashing just after your last code change deploys. The crash happens in only 0.1 percent of the servers where it runs. But you’re at a large-scale company, so 0.1 percent equals thousands of servers — and this issue is going to be hard to reproduce. Several [...]
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This World Immunization Week, we're sharing the results of our partnership with UNICEF to help combat vaccine hesitancy and increase routine immunization rates.
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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 o...

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 m...

On April 19, 2021, Facebook launched a request for proposals (RFP) on next-generation data infrastructure. With this RFP, which closes…
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On 4/21 with the general availability of iOS 14.5, Apple will start requiring all apps in the App Store to obtain permission to “track” users across apps and websites owned by third parties, including for advertising and measurement purposes. Apple’s A...

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....

Facebook Business Suite brings together messaging, posting, insights and advertising tools all in one place. New time-saving features include scheduling and posting Stories.

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....