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...

Enhancing our developer policies to strengthen platform integrity

We're adding new features to our Climate Science Center and announcing a $1 million investment in a new climate grant program.
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This Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting people who take heritage forward on Facebook and Instagram — from small business owners to creators and more.
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Here at Facebook, we’re passionate about building solutions that enable businesses to cultivate a closer and more personal relationship with their customers.

In June 2021, Facebook launched the third Foundational Integrity Research request for proposals (RFP) on misinformation and polarization. Today, we’re…
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Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v12.0 and Marketing API v12.0. Below, we’ve highlighted changes that will impact parts of our developer community. These changes include announcements and product updates, reminders from prior launches, and no...

In May 2021, Facebook launched the Engineering Approaches to Responsible Neural Interface Design request for proposals (RFP). Today, we’re announcing…
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Managing app size at Facebook is a unique challenge: Every day, developers check in large volumes of code, and each line of code translates into additional bits in the apps that people ultimately download onto their phones. Left unchecked, this added code would make the app bigger and bigger until eventually the time it takes [...]
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In this monthly interview series, we turn the spotlight on members of the academic community and the important research they…
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For years, in order to safeguard the privacy of people’s messages, WhatsApp has provided end-to-end encryption by default ​​so messages can be seen only by the sender and recipient, and no one in between. Now, we’re planning to give people the option to protect their WhatsApp backups using end-to-end encryption as well. People can already [...]
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Our latest survey of small business leaders finds that closure rates are falling around the world, signaling that recovery is underway.
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We're launching Ray-Ban Stories, our first-generation smart glasses that let you capture photos and videos, take phone calls and listen to music.
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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 scale. W...

With more than 200 million companies using one of our apps every month, Facebook plays a key role in helping small businesses stay connected with customers, innovate and grow. Facebook has been supporting small businesses with free education, resources...

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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 launche...

Boost your fashion brand with insights from Facebook and the British Fashion Council.

In May 2021, Facebook launched a request for proposals (RFP) on agent-based user interaction simulation to find and fix integrity…
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We're celebrating the expansion of music on Facebook Gaming with live events pairing DJs with Facebook Gaming Creators.
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We're rolling out prediction games that help fans enjoy sports and pop culture together on Facebook.
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Last year, we offered a first-ever research award opportunity for academics centered around experiences and expectations with digital privacy. We…
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Get the best tips to reach new customers, drive discovery and create more personalized shopping experiences this holiday season with Facebook Shops.

We’ll start asking people to share their birthday on Instagram to create safer experiences for young people.
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Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
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See how a wheelchair-bound athlete found a community on runners with disabilities on Facebook.
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As a continuation of the 2020 Networking request for proposals (RFP), Facebook launched the 2021 Networking RFP with a focus…
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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...

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. ...

In April 2021, Facebook launched the 2021 Statistics for Improving Insights, Models, and Decisions request for proposals live at The…
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What the research is:  RAMP-TAO is a new protocol that improves the developer experience on TAO, Facebook’s online social graph store, by providing stronger transactional guarantees. It is the first protocol to provide transactional semantics over an eventually consistent massive-scale data store while still preserving the system’s overall reliability and performance. RAMP-TAO enables an intuitive [...]
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We are excited to announce our participation in the Apricot subsea cable system, together with leading regional and global partners. When completed, the project (which is still subject to regulatory approvals) will deliver much-needed internet capacity, redundancy, and reliability to expand connections in the Asia-Pacific region. The 12,000-kilometer-long cable will connect Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the [...]
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Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance. With the help of the OCP community, we [...]
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What the research is:  A first-of-its-kind study detailing our backbone management strategy to ensure high service performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic moved most social interactions online and caused an unprecedented stress test on our global network infrastructure with tens of data center regions. At this scale, failures such as fiber cuts, router misconfigurations, [...]
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ZippyDB is the largest strongly consistent, geographically distributed key-value store at Facebook. Since we first deployed ZippyDB in 2012, this key-value store has expanded rapidly, and today, ZippyDB serves a number of use cases, ranging from metadata for a distributed filesystem, counting events for both internal and external purposes, to product data that’s used for [...]
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We are releasing Winterfell, our implementation of a STARK prover/verifier to Crates.io  Winterfell is an easy to use open source implementation of STARKs for security and privacy applications. One potential application for Winterfell’s zero-knowledge proofs is blockchain privacy and scalability.  “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Clarke’s Third Law What if the average [...]
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We're sharing three tips for creating content and showing you how Facebook Business Suite can make posting content easier for your business, every step of the way.

Reflections and insights on inclusion and a lack of Black women in leadership from a special panel conversation between BRiM and Bloom in Colour.

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...

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

Learn how personalised ads have helped businesses like Adam's.

Discover how Guinness engaged Six Nations fans with an online cook-a-long.