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Over the years, Meta (formerly Facebook) has evolved from a handful of small services centering around web servers to a web of large and complex services powering a rich set of user products. As we built out more regions, the scale of service deployment has accordingly evolved from single-cluster deployments to geo-distributed deployments, either because […]

By: Gerald Guo

Data, Systems and Networking

A Planet-Scale Computer via GSP

Over the years, Meta (formerly Facebook) has evolved from a handful of small services centering around web servers to a web of large and complex services powering a rich set of user products. As we built out more regions, the scale of service deployment has accordingly evolved from single-cluster deployments to geo-distributed deployments, either because […]

The Need for Speed: Our Journey to Industry-Leading TTP

In 2022, Meta’s Infrastructure teams were struggling to provide state-of-the-art AI hardware to our product groups in industry-leading time. Furthermore, some of our recent deliveries had also fallen short of expectations. We had one more chance to deliver. This post delves into some important changes we put in place to completely turn these challenges around, […]

Model Freshness Systems at Scale

Recommendation systems typically consider multiple signals based on your interactions with products. As you engage with the content—expressing interests, showing intent, indicating likes and dislikes—the recommendations get better; that is, more relevant and engaging for you. In simple terms, the more you use a product, the better it works for you. How quickly the signals […]

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Mobile, Video and Web

Rethinking the Video Transcoding Pipeline: How Pre-Filtering Holds the Key to Efficiency and Quality

While video input pre-filtering is not a new concept, it has evolved significantly in recent years. Originally designed to reduce noise and artifacts in low-quality video, pre-filtering techniques have now been adapted for use even on pristine video content. This talk will explore the importance of video input pre-filtering and the specific advantages it can […]

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Mobile, Video and Web

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Mobile, Video and Web

On-device Video Playback Upsampling

Various video upsampling technologies are adaptively applied to video playback on mobile clients. The video playback quality are constraint when streamed to the end users mostly due to the device network bandwidth constraints or the low quality in the original content. With these different advanced upsampling technologies on device playback, the streamed video quality are […]

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