ByteByteGo

JANUARY 25, 2025

The zero flakes guarantee cuts out false alarms and wasted engineering hours. 10 Essential Components of a Production Web Application It all starts with CI/CD pipelines that deploy code to the server instances. After DNS resolution, the requests reach the app servers. This allows the server to track login state.

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ByteByteGo

JANUARY 7, 2025

All credit for the technical details goes to the Airbnb engineering team. Before the brand-new key-value store became a reality, there were other solutions implemented by the Airbnb engineering team. This approach spread the data across multiple servers, making the system scalable as data grew. The number of shards was fixed.

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Docker Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hey there, fellow engineers and tech enthusiasts! Throughout my career as a Senior DevOps Engineer and Docker Captain, Ive found that these two tools can drastically streamline releases, reduce environment-related headaches, and give teams the confidence they need to ship faster. You can get Docker for various operating systems.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 21, 2024

As part of our beta experience, now available in a few countries, Threads users aged 18+ with public profiles can now choose to share their Threads posts to other ActivityPub-compliant servers. People on those servers can now follow federated Threads profiles and see, like, reply to, and repost posts from the fediverse.

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DoorDash Engineering

OCTOBER 24, 2023

WebView To a web engineer, a WebView is simply another application with some embedded protocols that allow for bi-directional communication between the mobile and web layers. Component library for server-driven UI content : These components handle rendering the complex JSON, which can also be extended to handle different layouts.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. The post Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 6, 2024

Meta servers push messages to connected clients over a persistent connection. Third-party servers are responsible for hosting any media files their client applications send to Meta clients (such as image or video files). WhatsApp uses the Noise Protocol Framework to encrypt all data traveling between the client and the WhatsApp server.

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ByteByteGo

JANUARY 28, 2025

The zero flakes guarantee cuts out false alarms and wasted engineering hours. Schedule a demo to learn more Disclaimer: The details in this post have been derived from multiple AWS reInvent talks and articles by the Amazon engineering team. Unlimited parallel test runs validate every change in minutes, not days.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We’ve made the source code for the SPTP client and server available on GitHub. For example, a PTP server can reject the request or confirm a less frequent exchange if the resources are exhausted. State machine Due to the “subscription” model, both the PTP client and the server have to keep the state in memory.

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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 13, 2023

One of these is the authentication key, which allows a WhatsApp client to connect to the WhatsApp server to re-establish a trusted connection. When someone receives a message their WhatsApp client wakes up and retrieves the offline message from WhatsApp server. What is an authentication-challenge?

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High Scalability

JANUARY 3, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. However, instant messengers such as WhatsApp don’t save the messages permanently on their server. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Gathering Requirements.

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work. ZippyDB: Scaling keyspaces for Threads Let’s zoom in on the storage layer, where we leveraged ZippyDB, a distributed key/value database that is run as a fully managed service for engineers to build on.

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ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cut your QA cycles down from hours to minutes with automated testing (Sponsored) If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you’re releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf. Drata’s team of 80+ engineers achieved 4x more test cases and 86% faster QA cycles.

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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 27, 2023

There are three main components to Sapling – a server, a client, and a virtual file system. The server stores all the data and is a careful mix of clever storage formats, wire protocols, and algorithms, mostly implemented in Rust and architected to scale. The final component is the virtual file system.

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Network Engineering

JANUARY 8, 2025

I am reaching out to seek assistance with an issue related to accessing a server hosted in our internal network. Here are the details of the scenario: We actually provide Security camera services to clients The server is hosted in the internal network with an IP address in the range 192.168.0.x/24.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Then in October 2023, WhatsApp began rolling out “Protect IP Address in Calls” which hides your IP from the other party by relaying calls through WhatsApp Servers. The server enforces this protocol, protecting the recipient device from the complexity of normal call setup and from processing attacker-controlled data.

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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 25, 2024

Today, it has been widely embraced at Meta and is one of our primary supported server-side languages (along with C++, Python, and Hack). The post The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship appeared first on Engineering at Meta. The history of Rust at Meta goes all the way back to 2016, when we first started using it for source control.

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Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 5, 2024

Hyperscale and cloud datacenter deployments constitute the largest market share of server deployments in the world today. Therefore, server design considerations, trade-offs and objectives for datacenter use cases are also significantly different from other market segments and require a different set of benchmarks and evaluation methodology.

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ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Create High-Level Design Break down the system into components such as client apps, servers, load balancers, databases, etc. Proactive performance monitoring using New Relic AI (Sponsored) Managing complex technology stacks and ensuring continuous uptime are critical challenges for modern engineering teams. Focus on the data flow.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It took a small, nimble engineering team working alongside Meta’s infrastructure teams to take Threads from zero to 100 million people in record time with no major downtime. Instagram uses Python (Django) for its backend.

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Network Engineering

JANUARY 12, 2025

I cannot figure out where this de-fragmentation is coming from, or if it's on the remote server or something in the network infrastructure between us? What's weirder is on the server I control, I look at ip link and can see that even there, the interface's MTU is 1500. What could possible cause larger-than-MTU packets?

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ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 21, 2024

It is commonly used in verifying the authenticity of a server. MX Record Directs email traffic to the correct mail server. NS (Name Server) Record Specifies the authoritative DNS servers for the domain. These records help direct queries to the correct DNS servers for further lookups.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 17, 2023

SCARF guides engineers through deprecating a product safely and efficiently via an internal tool. SCARF combines this tooling with automation to reduce load on engineers. Engineers who do attempt the cleanup might find that doing so is a very time-consuming job.

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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 10, 2024

At Meta, Bento , our internal Jupyter notebooks platform, is a popular tool that allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document. The visible manifestation of this is just a selector in the notebook that toggles between server-based kernels and serverless.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

Among other benefits, Hammerspace enables engineers to perform interactive debugging for jobs using thousands of GPUs as code changes are immediately accessible to all nodes within the environment. The post Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure appeared first on Engineering at Meta. S SSD we can procure in the market today.

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ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 10, 2024

All credit for the technical details goes to the Tinder engineering team. Their recommendation engine must deliver matches with speed and precision. This approach enabled the recommendation engine to focus searches only on relevant data, dramatically improving performance and scalability. This delay degraded the user experience.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A new critical vulnerability has been disclosed by Atlassian in a security advisory published on October 4th 2023 in its on-premise Confluence Data Center and Server product. The post Cato Protects Against Atlassian Confluence Server Exploits (CVE-2023-22515) appeared first on Cato Networks.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 28, 2025

These engines prevent any malicious downloads attempts and block the related ransomware before they are executed on the user’s device. They posted root access to the university’s server for sale on dark web forums for the low cost of $1,500 USD. The group offered root access to the companys server for $500 USD.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 25, 2024

Atlassian recently disclosed a new critical vulnerability in its Confluence Server and Data Center product line, the CVE has a CVSS score of 10, and allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain Remote Code Execution (RCE) access on the vulnerable server. The affected versions of Confluence Data Center and Server are: 8.0.x

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Kentik

OCTOBER 4, 2021

According to a statement published last night, Facebook Engineering wrote, “Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” For example, in IPv4, Facebook authoritative server a.ns.facebook.com resolves to the address 129.134.30.12

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We discussed how SCARF saves engineering time by identifying the correct order of tasks for cleaning up a product and how it can be blocked from automating the cleanup when there are intersystem dependencies. Dead code removal at scale SCARF uses CodemodService to create code change requests for engineers to review.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards to benefit companies of all sizes across the industry. FBNIC is a true multi-host foundational NIC and contains the first of our Meta-designed network ASICs for our server fleet and MTIA solutions.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The air passes through a mixing room, where outdoor air, if too cold, can be mixed with heat from server exhaust when needed to regulate the temperature. The air continues through a fan wall that pushes the air through openings in the floor that serve as an air shaft leading into the server area on the first floor.

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ByteByteGo

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

📅 Meet your EOY deadlines – faster releases, zero quality compromises (Sponsored) If slow QA processes and flaky tests are a bottleneck for your engineering team, you need QA Wolf. Their AI-native platform , backed by full-time QA engineers, enables their team to create tests 5x faster than anyone else.

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Engineering at Meta

JULY 10, 2024

Improving tail utilization – the utilization level of the top 5% of the servers when ranked by utilization– within our infrastructure is imperative to operate our fleet efficiently and sustainably. If demand increases, capacity headroom is necessary in constrained servers to maintain service levels when accommodating new demand.

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 10, 2024

At Facebooks scale, the systems built to support and overcome these challenges require extensive trade-off analyses, focused optimizations, and architecture built to allow our engineers to push for the same user and business outcomes. Tens of thousands of lines of code per layer across Android, iOS, and the server.

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ByteByteGo

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

When you want to send the JWT to a server, you put the header, payload, and signature inside the box. Then you send it over to the server. The server can easily read the header and payload to understand who you are and what you want to do. Over to you: When should we use JWT for authentication?

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