2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1429+ words) At Meta, real-time communication (RTC) powers various services from global Messenger and Instagram video chats to low-latency Cloud Gaming and immersive VR casting on Meta Quest. To meet the performance demands of billions of users, we spent years developing a…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (186+ words) As AI increases developer speed and productivity it also increases the need for safeguards. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig sits down with Ishwari and Joe from Meta's Configurations team to discuss how Meta makes config…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (643+ words) AI coding assistants are powerful but only as good as their understanding of your codebase. When we pointed AI agents at one of Meta's large-scale data processing pipelines " spanning four repositories, three languages, and over 4, 100 files " we quickly found that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (366+ words) None of these custom operators appear in vendor libraries, and many are too workload-specific to warrant a library implementation. Without native accelerator implementations, these operators either fall back to CPU " forcing disaggregated serving architectures with significant latency overhead " or run…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (300+ words) Meta continues to lead the industry in utilizing groundbreaking AI Recommendation Systems (Rec Sys) to deliver better experiences for people, and better results for advertisers. To reach the next frontier of performance, we are scaling Meta's Ads Recommender runtime models…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (798+ words) Meta's advertising system delivers personalized experiences to billions of people across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Whats App. Powering these interactions are highly sophisticated, complex and massively distributed machine learning (ML) models that continuously evolve to serve both advertisers and people who…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (194+ words) Meta's Product Security team has developed a two-pronged strategy to address this: The result is a system that can propose, validate, and submit security patches across millions of lines of code with minimal friction for the engineers who own them....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (798+ words) In its standard setting, Safe Browsing uses on-device models to analyze malicious links shared in chats. But we've extended this further with an advanced setting called Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) that leverages a continually updated watchlist of millions more potentially…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (493+ words) FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing. As an industry-standard tool it supports a wide variety of audio and video codecs and container formats. It can also orchestrate complex chains of filters for media editing and manipulation. For the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (283+ words) Building a software system is a lot like building a skyscraper: The product everyone sees is the top, but the part that keeps it from falling over is the foundation buried in the dirt and the scaffolding hidden from sight....