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At the 2026 Open Compute Project Global Summit, Meta is sharing the next generation of open networking infrastructure, including: Our first liquid-cooled network rack (IcePack), and 102.4T switch platform (IceCube).…
Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. MoQ will help simplify our protocol stack for live streaming video and enhance overall user experience…
At Meta, we’ve built a system that enhances ads recommendations by leveraging idle inference capacity in our fleet. Two elasticity levers in the system allow ads recommendation work to expand across opportunistic…
The sad thing about programming is that eventually we reach production; the closer we get, the nastier things get.
Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to…
#189: Part 7 - Generative AI Masterclass
Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer promotions, and why fully autonomous AI will…
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Joy Ebertz about how the use of artificial intelligence is changing the way architects and developers do their jobs. Focusing on the long term success of the business is one of…
Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering, and partitioning across four workload types on Delta Lake, uncovering two…
This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty…
