SEP 17, 2026

How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups

The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The...

Distributed Systems Performance HSM PostgreSQL Security Data Encryption

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ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB

We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store. As a bonus, it also enables...

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Engineering14d ago

An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts

We’ve built an AI agent that acts as a secondary expert for a given domain, making deep specialist knowledge readily available and preserved for anyone in an...

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MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge...

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