Extending the Malbec subsea cable to Southern Brazil
Meta is partnering with V.tal to extend the Malbec subsea cable to Porto Alegre, Brazil by 2027. With this new extension, Malbec will become the…
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Robust Database Backup Recovery at Uber
Database backups are critical for business continuity. Learn how Uber scaled stateful fleet backup and recovery across 10K database applications. This post first appeared on…
FM-Intent: Predicting User Session Intent with Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning
Authors: Sejoon Oh, Moumita Bhattacharya, Yesu Feng, Sudarshan Lamkhede, Ko-Jen Hsiao, and Justin Basilico Motivation Recommender systems have become essential components of digital services across e-commerce,…
Journey to 1000 models: Scaling Instagram’s recommendation system
In this post, we explore how Instagram has successfully scaled its algorithm to include over 1000 ML models without sacrificing recommendation quality or reliability. We…
Go Beyond, Plus Ultra! with the My Hero Academia Collection
Become the hero you want to be with the My Hero Academia Collection, featuring nine Avatar Decorations and three Profile Effects based upon fan-favorite heroes…
Meta’s Full-stack HHVM optimizations for GenAI
As Meta has launched new, innovative products leveraging generative AI (GenAI), we need to make sure the underlying infrastructure components evolve along with it. Applying…
Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 1: Inter-Agent Communication on MCP
At AWS, open standards run deep in our DNA, driving all that we do. That’s why we decided to build Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)…
Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK
Today I am happy to announce we are releasing Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building…
Open-sourcing Pyrefly: A faster Python type checker written in Rust
Back in 2017, engineers at Meta sought to create a type checker for Instagram’s typed Python codebase. Years later, as the type system continued to…
Introducing Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static…
Building Uber’s Multi-Cloud Secrets Management Platform to Enhance Security
At Uber, managing thousands of secrets across thousands of services and hundreds of external vendors was challenging. Learn how we built a centralized Secret Management…
Introducing the Discord for Business Newsletter, Vol. 1
Exclusive to partners and friends, this newsletter brings you the latest updates on business opportunities within the world of Discord. Read the first issue and…
Thank You for Ten Years
As we celebrate our tenth trip around the sun, let’s see what you and your friends have been up to on Discord over the past…
Staff Picks, May 2025: The Games That Brought Us to Discord
It’s Discord’s Birthday today! In this month’s Staff Picks, we’ll hear from Christina, Emi, Jeremy, and Armando about which games introduced them to Discord and…
Behind the Scenes: Building a Robust Ads Event Processing Pipeline
Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system…