Atul Arora

The engineering team behind Facebook Messages spent the past year building out a robust, scalable infrastructure. We shared some details about the technology on our Engineering Blog (http://fb.me/95OQ8YaD2rkb3r). This tech talk will dig deeper into some of the twenty different infrastructure services we created for the project as well as how...

Please join us for a special announcement from Facebook. Watch our event in San Francisco on Facebook Live.

Our special guest for the fourth installment in our Building Social for Businesses series is Giantnerd CEO Randall Weidberg. We will discuss Giantnerd's great social plug-in results and how you can apply their best practices to your business needs.

Join us live at 11 am PDT!

XHP has transformed how PHP is written at Facebook. An augmentation of the PHP language to allow XML document fragments as valid expressions, XHP changes the way front end code is developed. Using these XHP objects instead of string literals to output HTML has eliminated XSS vulnerabilities, prevented missing closing tags, and stopped invalid...

7 - 9PM: Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant: 640 Emerson St (between Forest & Hamilton Aves) Palo Alto, CA

RSVP here: http://dmfeveningpaloalto.eventbrite.com/

Join authors David Cohen and Brad Feld in celebrating the first stop of their whirlwind 12 city book tour. Information for the afternoon events can be found here:...

Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, with over 500 million active users responsible for billions of photos, conversations, and interactions all around the world running on top of tens of thousands of servers spread across multiple geographically-separated data centers. When problems arise in the infrastructure behind the scenes...

Despite having access to advanced JavaScript frameworks, many web developers continue to write very similar boilerplate code to setup AJAX interactions. Facebook, in particular, peaked at nearly one megabyte of JavaScript on its homepage. The team then realized that 90% of our interactions could be boiled down into a very small set of steps: (1)...

Come Train with Friends

* The Om Run mentor team will train all who Sign Up.
* Mentoring team has organized a 12 week training program for half marathoners and 8 week training program for 5k/10k runners.
* The training is modeled using the Galloway program http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/index.html
* All Mentors are...