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Short Bytes: FAISS is an open-source library released by Facebook for similarity search and clustering high-dimensional data. This library finds application in complex datasets like images and videos which could not fit in RAM all at once. With the advent of highly successful Machine Learning methods, there has been a boom in big datasets across […]
Short Bytes: Facebook has announced that the Open Compute Project has accepted the Wedge 100 Specifications for their next-generation open network switch. The Wedge 100 switch can be deployed in data centers in a top-of-rack fashion and deliver speeds up to 100Gbps. Other than being a social media giant and making an impact in the […]
Short Bytes: Facebook recently announced new open source tools named MyRocks and ZStandard at Facebook’s @Scale Conference 2016. While MyRocks is a database engine that leverages all features of MySQL on the top of RocksDB database, ZStandard is a compression algorithm that can outperform current industry norms. Many major biggies of the technology industry are […]
Short Bytes: Introducing a new way of thinking (that should be adopted by other tech giants) while working with open source projects, Facebook has launched Incubator on GitHub. The social network aims to release its internal open source projects via this central channel and observe their adoption in the open source community. If a project […]
Short Bytes: In the first six months of 2016, world’s largest social networking website Facebook has already open sourced 54 projects. These projects include Draft.js, Reason, ReDex, Facebook CTF, Torch etc. More than a dozen of these open source Facebook projects have already become pretty popular in the community. It’s often said that the 21st […]