Blog posts tagged 'Framework'
Facebook open source at F8 2017
We announced several new open source projects today that improve app experiences for both users and engineers. Read more...
Open-sourcing Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android
Litho lays out components ahead of time in a background thread, and renders incrementally to deliver best-in-class performance. Read more...
Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible
The new version of Relay is designed from the ground up to be easier to use, more extensible, and optimized for mobile devices. Read more...
Building virtual reality experiences on the web with React VR
Expanding on the declarative programming style of React and React Native, React VR lets anyone with an understanding of JavaScript rapidly build and deploy VR experiences using standard web tools. Read more...
Components for Android: A declarative framework for efficient UIs
Components for Android delivers smooth scroll performance on feeds with complex content and virtually infinite variations. Read more...
Wangle — an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library
Wangle is a C++ library for building protocols, servers, and clients in an asynchronous, clean, composable, and scalable manner. Read more...
Embracing open source security
Osquery: Approaching security the hacker way. Read more...
How RocksDB is used in osquery
Using RocksDB as osquery's embedded database allows osquery to store and access data in a fast, persistent way, enabling our team to solve some technical problems we'll detail in this blog. Read more...
Classes: Performance and network segmentation on Android
Today we're happy to open-source Year Class and Connection Class, which help developers smartly segment based on device and network performance in real time. Read more...
Introducing “OpenBMC”: an open software framework for next-generation system management
Recently, we found the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software stack too closed to meet our needs, so we built our own version, which we're open-sourcing today. Read more...
Flow, a new static type checker for JavaScript
Introducing Flow, a new open-source static type checker for JavaScript. Flow adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality. Read more...
Introducing Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP framework
We are excited to announce the release of Proxygen, a collection of C++ HTTP libraries, including an easy-to-use HTTP server. In addition to HTTP/1.1, Proxygen (rhymes with “oxygen”) supports SPDY/3 and SPDY/3.1. We are also iterating and developing support for HTTP/2. Read more...
Making News Feed nearly 50% faster on iOS
We realized that while Core Data had served us well in the beginning, we needed to go without some of its features to accommodate our scale. We set about replacing it with our own solution, resulting in News Feed performing nearly 50% faster on iOS. Read more...
Introducing AsyncDisplayKit: For smooth and responsive apps on iOS
AsyncDisplayKit is an iOS framework that keeps even the most complex user interfaces smooth and responsive. Read more...
Introducing Pop, the animation engine behind Paper
A couple of months ago we launched Paper, a fluid and beautiful way to explore and share stories. Today we’re open-sourcing Pop, the animation engine behind the application’s smooth animations and transitions. Using dynamic instead of traditional static animations, Pop drives the scrolling, bouncing, and unfolding effects that bring Paper to life. Read more...
Hack Developer Day Recap
A few weeks ago, Facebook introduced and open-sourced Hack, a gradually-typed programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Yesterday we hosted our first Hack Developer Day to bring together members of the developer community for a deeper dive into Hack and HHVM. Read more...
Hackathon 22: Redesigning Pixelcloud
Hackathons – all-night coding sessions where engineers create new products that aren’t part of their daily work – are at the heart of Facebook’s culture. For my latest hackathon project I rebuilt an internal tool called Pixelcloud (we originally wrote about it in 2009). Pixelcloud is a simple internal site used mostly by Facebook’s design team that allows you to upload images so other employees can comment on them. Designers use it to upload mocks and screenshots of prototypes to start discussions and critiques, but other employees use it as well as sort of an internal photo sharing tool. Read more...
Names in translation and social language modeling
Our Translations app allows users (translators) to click on a phrase as they browse the site, and see the original native string, vote on translations suggested by their peers or contribute their own. Here at Facebook, we offer an innovative approach to web site internationalization that leverages a unique infrastructure and a dedicated user community to keep our interface up-to-date in translation. Read more...
Hive - A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop
A number of engineers from Facebook are speaking at the Yahoo! Hadoop Summit today about the ways we are using Hadoop and Hive for analytics. Hive is an open source, peta-byte scale date warehousing framework based on Hadoop that was developed by the Data Infrastructure Team at Facebook. In this blogpost we'll talk more about Hive, how it has been used at Facebook and its unique architecture and capabilities. Read more...
Hadoop
With tens of millions of users and more than a billion page views every day, Facebook ends up accumulating massive amounts of data. One of the challenges that we have faced since the early days is developing a scalable way of storing and processing all these bytes since using this historical data is a very big part of how we can improve the user experience on Facebook. This can only be done by empowering our engineers and analysts with easy to use tools to mine and manipulate large data sets. About a year back we began playing around with an open source project called Hadoop. Hadoop provides a framework for large scale parallel processing using a distributed file system and the map-reduce programming paradigm. Read more...