In just the past four years, large content providers such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have directly invested in 14 submarine cables The market's largest ban …

Facebook's global network has tens of thousands of network devices from a variety of vendors. We need to run commands on these devices for monitoring, provisioning …

Kavya Joshi shares strategies to prepare systems for flux and scale. Drawing from a range of use cases, including Facebooks Kraken, which provides shadow traffic, and Samsara's custom load simulator, Kavya demonstrates how to improve your understanding of your systems as they run today and plan for how they'll run tomorrow.

As the systems we build become more distributed and (in the case of containerization) ephemeral, traditional monitoring tools prove to be grossly insufficient. Fortunately, the state of monitoring has evolved to meet these new demands, but it brings its own set of technical and organizational challenges. Cindy Sridharan offers an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs.

In Facebook's new container system we started to heavily utilize Btrfs, cgroups2 and systemd. The combination of these tools and some additional internal code allowed us to create a lightweight, fast …

In the coming years, the EU is determined to bring its industries to the digital market and acquire a leading position on the global tech market. In order to achieve this ambitious goal of allowing Eu …

Tim OReilly draws on lessons from networked platforms to show how our economy and financial markets have also become increasingly managed by algorithms, making the case that income inequality, declining upward mobility, and job losses due to technology are not inevitable; they are the result of design choices we have made in the algorithms that manage our markets.

Phillip Liu explores the one thing that has become a driver of ever better engineering: constant removal of friction for engineers to not only build and ship code but also understand how code is used and how it works and operates. The end result is a culture that promotes many possible ways to address given challenges and surfaces novel approaches, which may have never arisen otherwise.

Wojciech Biela and ukasz Osipiuk offer an introduction to Presto, an open source distributed analytical SQL engine that enables users to run interactive queries over their datasets stored in various data sources, and explore its applications in various big data problems.

For years, REST has been the standard architecture for APIs. But a new technology is emerging, one that's perfect for developing rich, client-friendly APIs: GraphQL. David Celis and Garen Torikian explain why this query language is being adopted by companies like Shopify, Pinterest, and GitHub and show you how you can leverage GraphQL for your own APIs.

From the moment you create your Twitter bio, write your first blog post, or share your first Facebook article, you are building your brand. It can be daunting, but if you proactively manage your brand, you can get ahead of the curve and put the content you care about in front of the public eye. Neha Batra explains how to create a strategy that works for you and grow your brand from it.

Teradata joined the Presto community in 2015 and is now a leading contributor to this open source SQL engine, originally created by Facebook. Join Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski to learn about Presto, Teradata's recent enhancements in query performance, security integrations, and ANSI SQL coverage, and its roadmap for 2017 and beyond.

James Bradbury offers an overview of PyTorch, a brand-new deep learning framework from developers at Facebook AI Research that's intended to be faster, easier, and more flexible than alternatives like TensorFlow. James makes the case for PyTorch, focusing on the library's advantages for natural language processing and reinforcement learning.