OCT 16, 2026

Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions

On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that...

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How Meta Built Forum With AI-Native Engineering

Meta’s newest app, Forum, is for anyone who wants to go deeper into the conversations in their Facebook groups. To build Forum, Meta engineers adopted a...

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2026 World Cup: Breaking Records, Spiky Charts and Reliability at Scale

Every four years, the World Cup becomes the largest planned stress test of our infrastructure. This year it also set an all-time record! There are a few...

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Sapienz Receives ISSTA 2026 Impact Paper Award

Ke Mao, Mark Harman, and Yue Jia have been recognized with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026 Most...

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