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Engineering at Meta (formerly Facebook Engineering) covers how Meta builds products used by billions of people. Posts explore large-scale distributed systems, AI/ML research and production, mobile performance, data infrastructure, networking, and open source projects like React, PyTorch, and Llama.

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Engineering at Meta1 min read6h ago

How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger

We’re sharing the technical details behind how Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) in Messenger protects the privacy of the links clicked on within chats while...

Distributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min read7d ago

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale

FFmpeg is truly a multi-tool for media processing. As an industry-standard tool it supports a wide variety of audio and video codecs and container formats. It...

CloudDistributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min read7d ago

Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc

Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc,...

CloudPerformanceDistributed Systems
Engineering at Meta1 min read13d ago

RCCLX: Innovating GPU Communications on AMD Platforms

We are open-sourcing the initial version of RCCLX – an enhanced version of RCCL that we developed and tested on Meta’s internal workloads. RCCLX is fully...

Distributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min read26d ago

The Death of Traditional Testing: Agentic Development Broke a 50-Year-Old Field, JiTTesting Can Revive It

WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It...

Distributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min read28d ago

Building Prometheus: How Backend Aggregation Enables Gigawatt-Scale AI Clusters

We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly...

BackendDistributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min readFeb 4, 2026

No Display? No Problem: Cross-Device Passkey Authentication for XR Devices

We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses...

SecurityDistributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min readJan 27, 2026

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats....

SecurityDistributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min readJan 14, 2026

Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback

We’ve improved personalized video recommendations on Facebook Reels by moving beyond metrics such as likes and watch time and directly leveraging user...

BackendDistributed SystemsPerformance
Engineering at Meta1 min readJan 12, 2026

CSS at Scale With StyleX

Build a large enough website with a large enough codebase, and you’ll eventually find that CSS presents challenges at scale. It’s no different at Meta, which...

Distributed SystemsPerformance