Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called AirpalĀ that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… Read more »
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
Facebook on Friday open sourced a handful of software libraries that it claims will help users build bigger, faster deep learning models than existing tools allow. The libraries, which is… Read more »
True disruption doesn’t mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. Read more »
Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, “data center fabric.” We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show… Read more »
With your operating system expressed as a relational database, you can run SQL queries to see how your OS is performing, troubleshoot issues and even discover malicious activity lurking about. Read more »
Recent comments by machine learning experts have caused a stir, but debate over the novelty or architecture of deep learning might be best left in academia . As AI techniques make… Read more »
Facebook’s James Pearce came on the Structure Show this week to talk about how Facebook handles open source projects, and how the new TODO group it’s part of is going help… Read more »
Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along… Read more »
Currently crowdfunding, Sandstorm is a genuinely exciting opportunity for the creation of a viable, federation-friendly indie web-app ecosystem. It promises the benefits of running your own server, without having to actually… Read more »