Los Lunas, New Mexico, Facebook newest Data Center

Facebook and New Mexico Governor has officially announced on Wednesday, september 14,2016 that social media giant plans to open the next data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. A statement from Facebook said that they plan to start construction of 510,000 sq-foot center as early as next month and the facility should be online in 2018.

When the Los Lunas facility opens, it will join other data centers that Facebook has opened over the years, including Clonee, Ireland (which should open by late 2017 or early 2018); Fort Worth, Texas; Altoona, Iowa; Forest City, North Carolina; Lulea, Sweden; and the original site in Prineville, Oregon. Los Lunas data center will be seventh data center globally and fifth in US

Ken Patchett, Facebook's director of data center operations in the western region, wrote in a post that the Los Lunas facility will be "one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers in the world" and that the company is teaming with PNM Resources to leverage New Mexico's solar and wind energy to power the data center. "By powering our data center with renewable energy versus natural gas, we also reduce the water usage associated with the data center by 30 percent," he said. "The new solar and wind farms also bring additional jobs and investments to the region."

According to a statement from Gov. Susana Martinez's office, Facebook will make an initial $250 million investment. State officials believe the project has long-term economic benefits.

"This was an incredibly intense national search, in which to locate their facility, and the fact that New Mexico won this, speaks volumes about where we have come in the last six years," said Jon Barela, New Mexico Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary.

Los Lunas agreed to give up property taxes for 30 years in exchange for annual payments from Facebook starting at $50,000 and going as high as $500,000. The village council in June also approved an ordinance allowing for the issuance of up to $30 billion in industrial revenue bonds to lure the facility to Los Lunas.

The proposed $250 million data center is expected to span 850 acres and use at least 30 megawatts of solar and wind power to fuel technology at the site with the potential to expand to 100 megawatts in the coming years. Facebook also has committed to a minimum of 30 full-time workers in Los Lunas, with the potential for thousands more during the construction phase and a promise to source workers and materials locally.

Governor Susana Martinez released this statement on the decision:
"Facebook is a stellar, cutting-edge, high-tech company, and it's an honor to welcome them to New Mexico," said Governor Martinez. "Making our state more competitive for jobs and new investment is critical to growing our private sector and diversifying our economy. With the improvements we've made over the past several years, New Mexico is finally competing again, and in this case, it's a big win for the people of our state and our economic future.When we first sat down with Facebook executives 13 months ago, we weren't even on their radar. But we made a strong case and laid out how competitive we have become," continued Governor Martinez. "Two months later, we got the call and went straight to work. We competed. And, by working together at all levels of government, and with private partners like PNM, we have helped make New Mexico a home for one of the largest tech companies in the world."

Martinez attributed this to her efforts in creating a business-friendly administration by lowering business taxes, creating corporate incentives and developing a closing fund.

After initially competing with New Mexico for the Facebook center, Utah officials and residents raised concerns late this summer about the amount of water the center would require to cool its computers and the cost of tax breaks. Facebok didn't release proper statistcs on projected water usage, but company said it is expected to be "far less" than the "theoretical maximum quoted publicity". During winter, it said "New Mexico's cool temperatures and dry weather will mean the data center will consume very little water in comparison to hot, humid days".

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Facebook updates Messenger Platform: v1.2

After launching the Messenger Platform few months ago, millions of people in over 200 countries have been engaging with businesses on Messenger each day in new and exciting ways - from better customer service, to more sophisticated brand and commerce experiences, and receiving news from trusted sources.

Facebook today enhanced its Messenger platform by integrating its payment mechanisms for chatbots with the most popular financial service providers. During an onstage interview atTechCrunch Disrupt SF, Facebook vice president and Head of Messenger David Marcus said you will now be able to make payments from inside Messenger using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Stripe, PayPal or Braintree.

When Facebook announced its bot platform in April the company highlighted the capability to make travel arrangements and retail purchases from within Messenger without redirecting to the another payment related websites. Facebook is trying to build an ecosystem that enables the fundamental things such as one-to-one messaging, group conversations and the capability to interact with business. For the last six months Facebook invested a lot in the focus of Messenger's performance, real time communications and instant video calling.

Marcus dismissed the notion that bots are a fad, and said Facebook is committed to making sure they eventually live up to the hype. "It's not about bots, it's about how can you get an experience" by interacting with people, services, brands and businesses,he said.

Messenger attracted more than 34,000 new developers during the past five months, and at least 30,000 related bots were released, according to Facebook.

Finally, what will Messenger look like five years from now? "When you look at all of these entities that you interact with, it's bringing it all together," Marcus said. "Can you bring your daily life on Messenger in a more organized way, and actually have the best high quality, high fidelity interactions with people, groups of people, businesses, services and give an opportunity for developers to build a presence on a new platform and get distribution and adoption."

Facebook announced the launch of v1.2 which is containing the several new features, the most important is the ability for brands to accept payments directly via the application. The Other major feature launch is the ability for brands to use News Feed ads on Facebook to drive users to Messangers via calls to action such as "send message", "shop now" or "learn more".

Other new features in Messenger Platform v1.2 include:

1. The addition of more user interface elements to Messenger threads between brands and users.
2. Users can now share individual messages from bots or links to the actual bots themselves via Messenger.
3. The new welcome screen for pages and bots on Messenger provides more context for users.
4. Quick replies were updated to include elements such as location sharing and icons.
5. App-level analytics, including error and block rates, can now be downloaded in .CSV form via in-app settings.
6. The same attachment can be reused on subsequent media sends, enabling brands to broadcast and slashing the send times for multimedia.

All clicks on these News Feed ads will directly open up a Messenger thread with a copy of the ad or configurable structured message. Similar to existing Facebook ads, developers and businesses will have the option to select their target audiences and delivery times. More enhanced UI were addressed in the Newsroom post. With this update, we're giving developers and businesses the ability to bring more UI elements inside the threads they have with their customers and users, because while some interactions are better in a conversational format (like quick responses or intent capture), and some things are better suited for a permanent thread (like receipts, shipping notifications and flight updates), some experiences are truly better with a full-fledged UI.

New Welcome Screeen for pages and bots :

When people start a new thread with your bot in the Messenger app, they will now be greeted with a welcome screen to provide more information about the bot, including the category of the associated page, response time and capabilities provided on Messenger. This will help provide details about the bot experience.

New Sharing Capabilities :

We're enabling seamless sharing of bots and messages from bots to friends on Messenger. People can share any message with friends using the standard Messenger share button next to the message. People can also share bots with their friends using a share option in thread details of the bot thread. All shared messages will include the bot icon, name and call to action that allows people to start a thread with the associated bot.

Roenberg wrote that receipients must avail the subscription messaging. He outlined the following use cases that are eligible for the test of subscription messaging:

News: Bots whose primary purpose is to inform people about recent or important events or information in categories such as sports, finance, business, real estate, weather, traffic, politics and entertainment.

Productivity: Bots whose primary purpose is to enable people to manage their personal productivity with tasks such as managing calendar events, receiving reminders and paying bills.

Personal trackers: Bots that enable people to receive and monitor information about themselves in categories such as fitness, health, wellness and finance.

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New Trending Features in Facebook

 Facebook has recently launched a trending section in the right side of the home page for any web users(currently not available for the mobile users). Trending was launched in 2014 to help people discover interesting and relevant conversations happening on Facebook based on their interests. Trending is a list of topics and hashtags that have recently become popular on Facebook. This list is personalized based on a number of factors, including Pages you've liked, timelines, your location and what's trending across Facebook. The trending in Facebook are grouped in 5 categories : All News, politics, Science and Technology, Sports and Entertainments.

Here's how these changes will work :

1. In this version of the Trending module, topics are sorted in a simple list with a number indicating how many people are talking about them. Previously, each of those lines would have been accompanied by a short description written by a Facebook employee - and no numbers indicating how popular each topic is. 
   
2. To see the content of the topic, just hover over the topic and a small side window will be popuplated with small description of the topic. For any more information, click on the headings and it will redirect to the corresponding paage, articles and posts that appears in a search result.
   
   
   
3. There are still people involved in this process to ensure that the topics that appear in Trending remain high-quality - for example, confirming that a topic is tied to a current news event in the real world. The topic #lunch is talked about during lunchtime every day around the world, but will not be a trending topic. These changes mean that we no longer need to do things like write topic descriptions and short story summaries since we're relying on an algorithm to pull excerpts directly from news stories.

Facebook Trending aggregates the headlines of the day, while Twitter Trending Topics check the pulse of the moment. With Trend on internet being something going at this moment, I think mostly user likes currect current avatar of facebook trending.

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Virtual Reality Exprience by Barack Obama

US President, Barack Obama has taken up the features in a virtual reality (VR) video where he can be seen traversing through the Yosemite National Park situated in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, also conveying his concerns about climate change.

Take in the president's remarks as you explore every angle of the incredible surroundings of Yosemite, including El Capitan, the Cathedral Rocks, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Falls, and the Merced River.

National Geographic has been a pioneer in visual storytelling throughout its 128-year history. We see virtual reality as a new frontier and are thrilled to use this powerful medium to help celebrate the National Park Service's centennial anniversary." - Rajiv Mody, Vice President of Social Media for National Geographic.

Created by National Geographic, Felix & Paul Studios, and Oculus, this experience is available today on the Oculus Store for Gear VR with Rift coming soon!

"The VR experience provides a personal look at President Obama's trip to Yosemite with his family over Father's Day weekend," Oculus said in a blog post on Friday.

Walk with the president as he crosses the footbridge and takes in the view of Vernal Falls with the First Family-First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia, and Sasha. You can catch a time-lapse sunset go by from Glacier Point, and float along in a canoe, framed by mountains, to learn about John Muir's enduring legacy.

Obama is seen interacting with students during an event tied to his "Every Kid in the Park" initiative and speaking with Don Neubacher, the Yosemite National Park superintendent.

"As filmmakers, we wanted to use cinematic virtual reality's unique transportive power to bring audiences into a journey with President Obama where they could experience firsthand the vertiginous, lyrical and timeless beauty of Yosemite. We were deeply inspired by the idea that American national parks such as Yosemite were originally established 'for all people for all times,' as a way to allow future generations to experience the extraordinary and untouched beauty and richness of these natural wonders." added FA©lix Lajeunesse, Co-founder of Felix & Paul Studios.

This month marks the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service, and we're honored to help commemorate this milestone.

Very few people will get to experience the beauty of the US national parks alongside a sitting president. Transporting people to places they might not get to see in their lifetime is one of the great powers of VR.

 

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Facebook At Work

Facebook At Work

Facebook At Work- a corporate service for companies launched by Social networking giant Facebook. Facebook has started to come out a new approach to collaborate the coworkers effectively and productively through 'Facebook At Work'. Facebook has reportedly launched an office-focused app on the web, android and iOS. 'Facebook At Work' - a fabulous tool to open up and to keep connected within the colleagues in its own company and geographics. It is completely different from the personal facebook account. In a full secure way, associates within the company, from the CEO to the retail store employees can be able to get the updated news posted in this platform. 'Come work with us and do what you love' - main motive of this development.

Facebook vs Facebook at Work :

Iconic facebook features such as News Feed, Groups, Message, Events and searching, are at the forefront along with the productivity. But there will also be a clear distinction between personal Facebook and Facebook At Work profile. Facebook At Work's mission is simple : to enable secure global collaboration across different time zones and languages for business critical matters and to create a more productive workplace.

Facebook is an online social networking service that allows its users to connect with friends and family as well as make new connections. It provides the access to its users to create a profile, update personal information, uploading profile pictures, add any images, searching and sending the friend request to create a proper connection, and accept requests from other users. This apart status update, photo uploading, tagging, sharing is also another activity in facebook portal. Facebook's profile structure includes a timeline, information related to the user, images of the user, images added by friends of the user, notes, pages, groups, and more. It enables its users to create pages related to entertainment, sports, business, finance, preferences, hobbies, culture, religion, causes, organizations, and a number of other categories. It also enables its users to create or join groups related to a vast number of categories.

Most of the company have enterprise softwares which are not social. Enterprises have specific requirements for tools in the workplace. Enterprise features such as single sign-on (SSO) secure identity management, enterprise support and analytics are included in Facebook At Work. The company holds the control and ownership of the data when the information is posted in Facebook at Work and only employees of the company can see those information. There is a proverb that says that a more connected workplace is a more productive workplace. Companies can easily eliminae or drastically reduce their cost for internal collaboration tools like intranet, telephony system, video conferencing and distribution lists. The internal social network is based on the same principles as a public social network : share information within a defined sphere, invite contacts to events, communicate around the topic, share the document.

Internal Social Networking - Challenges and benefits :

Facebook At Work meets the demand of professionals who wants to set up a new internal social network.

1. Public and Business - Understanding the differences :
   The interface of Facebook At Work is quite similar to the personal facebook profile which may encourage employees from using other social network during their working hours.
   Facebook At Work account is totally different from the personal facebok profile.
   Information can be shared only in a limited group defined by the company.
   Facebook at work helps to connect the associates and collaborate using familiar features of facebook like News Feed, Message, Groups, events.
2. Optimum Security :
   It is a completely secure platform to share the private information as it is only accessible among the coworkers. It can be accessed through the company's email or shared folder and documents placed on the company server. As a result when an associate will leave the company, he will not have any access of the company's mail and he will not be able to get any company update which makes it more secure about the companies personal data.
3. Profile Customization :
   Employees can customize their profile picture and cover photo like the personal profile but the other information (name, position, contacts ) will be filled by the company which makes it more secure.
4. Separate from personal page:
   But this platform is totally separated where any private data or information will not be accessible from facebook.
5. Linking personal facebook profile account to Facebook At Work:
   It is possible to take the personal information from the facebook profile by linking it during the time of registration. In this way, the transaction from one account to another will be faciliated. But information shared on the public network will not be visible in Facebook At Work profile.
6. No Advertisement Zone:
The main majority of revenue of facebook account is advertisement. But this platform is totally free of adds and will be used to collaborate the company associates.
7. Mobility :
   'Facebook at Work' also has its own standalone app on mobile which is very useful to get the update at any time.
   Some drawbacks have also been identified :
   • The establishment of this type of solution is time consuming for employees.
   • The information posted on Facebook At Work will not be equally beneficial to all level of employees in an organization.
Across the globe, Facebook At Work is a new plaform which is currently being deployed as a pilot project in several companies from banking to telecommunications to travel, retail and real estate. Indian firms like L&T Infotech, Godrej, Yes Bank, UST Global, Paytm, Practo, Zomato, Delhivery, BookMyShow, ibibo, AskMe, Urban Ladder, Girnarsoft (Cardekho, Zigwheels & Gaadi) KartRocket, Edureka, eVidyaloka, Vision India Foundation, Landmark Group and Telenor, among others, are already using 'Facebook At Work'.
The establishment of social network in business can lead to increase productivity and responsiveness. Weighing the scales as well, where we put the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook, we can conclude that, if Facebook is used in the right proportions and with proper care, it can be powerful.
You can download android app as well as iOS app

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Facebook hiring trends

 

Facebook is very popular for social networking site. People can get in touch with their relative, friend as well as they can create their own group. Facebook has mission to connect the people, where people can share their technical stuff with each other's to make a difference. To achieve this mission they have to treat the people as their employee. It will help to understand their technical stuff, background, abilities and many other characteristics.

Facebook is working hard towards new technologies to create differences. They are continuously working with internal or external programs and partnership with many vendors. He is focussing in hiring process. The current representation of the employee is senior leadership is 3% Black, 3%, 27% woman and 3% Hispanic. Since last 12 month its gets increased to 9% is Black, 29% woman and 5% is Hispanic.

Every company wants to grow, for that they must have skilled people. Skilled people can share their experiences with each other's to grow for them as well as company perspective. Technology has created a new environment for people, where industry will depend on these people to grow. People have opportunity to gain knowledge through public education system.

The current survey says about US education system is that:

• Only one teaching computer science out of 4
• 10 Girls has took the exam in computer science
• No girl has participated from 3 states
• No black people took the exam from 9 states

As per result it was surprised that 50% of the high school graduates are black.

Facebook believes that everyone one in the country have opportunities to learn skill. Industry demands skill person. Facebook want to hire more people in upcoming days. Facebook already committed $15 million to code.org (A learning platform open for all aged group) for upcoming 5 years. Code.org will create a new of environment for technology where all aged group people can learn and share their experiences to others.

Facebook is promoting the diversity towards technology. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg already raised voice "Computer Science for All" while supporting President Obama. He believes that when people will start learning the code it will create product of the future.

Short Term: Building a Diverse Slate of Candidates and an Inclusive Working Environment

The aim of the diverse slate approach is to find out the talent from crowd. It will encourage to recruiters to look longer, harder as well smarter to find out best candidate.

Facebook is focusing on new technology trend available in the market. So they are trying to provide new tools to their employees. They are continuously conducting training to trained in new technology. They believe that biggest impact comes from the tool. It helps them to manage the diverse team, and make strong relationship with partners.

Facebook is trying to create an environment for their employees to build a new quality product. They are providing the training on managing unconscious bias. All level employees have joined the class session. They are learning from previous year feedback result from their employees. Now the site is open for all. The class has been designed in structured way so that all company can use the training. Facebook is also working hard towards HR system. They are trying to deliver and support a range of learning and development programs. It has included in lean in circle also.

Medium Term: Supporting Students with an Interest in Tech

Facebook has opened a University name Facebook University (FBU) established in 2013. Only 30 students were enrolled in computer science. Facebook is focusing more about technology by providing training session. In 2015, student's gest increased to 170. In 2016, summer they had started a new course in Analytics.

One year ago Facebook has launched Computer Science and Engineering (CS&E) Lean in circle. This is partnership with LeanIn.org, and LinkedIn and the Anita Borg institute. They have aim to support for woman to take interest in computer science, also they will provide additional training till their graduation end. They will help to sharp their critical skill. Only 18% woman has degree in computer science In the US. They have 250 circles on university around the world. The program will helpful for student to expand via Lean Internship circle. They are engaged with 85 more companies and they had extended to New York City.

Long Term: Creating Opportunity and Access

Facebook is continuously working for better education student across the country. They know it's not an easy task to close the gap in short time. They had already committed $15 million for code.org for online training for all aged group. In the code.org there is TechPrep feature to test their knowledge. TechPrep will help to develop programming skill regardless current skill.

Highlighting Facebook's LGBTQ community

Facebook is trying to focus to create diversity, which comes in many forms. They want to highlight the LGBTQ community.

As per voluntary report- 61% responded, 7% self-identified and other being lesbian, gay, bisexual etc. in terms of sexual orientation.

Annual Diversity Data

Facebook has created a strong diversity in hiring process. They are continuously growing very fast. The percentage of woman gets reached to 27% from past 23% and black people in non-tech from 3% to 5%.

You can download equal employment opportunity (eeo) report for 2015 here

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Oculus Rift is available for pre-order and demo

Oculus has announced that online pre-order of Rift is available from retailers in Europe and Canada and shipping and in-store availability will begin from September, 20 priced at $599.99 and demo expriences will also be rolling out across Europe and canada over the next several weeks. The pre-order will be available from a range of stockist partners.

UK: Amazon.co.uk, John Lewis, Curry's PC World, GAME and even London department store Harrods.

France: Amazon.fr and FNAC

Germany: Amazon.de, MediaMarkt and Saturn

Canada: Best Buy and Microsoft Store Online

Yes, this means you can finally pick your product in retails local store or jump into the online and take the product directly instead of waiting months for Oculus' web store to catch up with the order. Oculus has also launched a site, Oculus Live, to keep track of where you'll be able to play with a Rift ahead of purchase.

The Oculus Rift is a virtual really headset developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, released on 28th March, 2016. Oculus proposed a Kickstarter campeign in 2012 to collect the fund of Rift's development. In March, 2014 Facebook purchased Oculus for $2 billion.

The Rift has an OLED display, 1080 x 1200 resolution per eye, a 90Hz refresh rate and 110 degree field of view. It has integrated headphones which provide a 3D audio effect, rotational and positional tracking. The positional tracking system is called "Constellation" is performed by a USB stationary infrared sensor that is picking up light that is emitted by IR LEDs that are iintegrated into the hmd. The sensor normally sits on the user's desk. This creates 3D space, allowing for the user to use the Rift while sitting, standing or walking around the same room.

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality system that completely immerses you inside the virtual world. "Virtual reality is a very experiential product and exprience, it's something that you really have to see to believe - like you did - you're maybe a little skeptical before, you've heard of VR in the past and it hasn't really worked, but now it does and it works in an incredible way, but you have to see it to really believe it" - Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe - "And we feel like once you see it, you're gonna want it. So getting it into... broad retail around the world is going to be very important to the success of VR and to the success of Oculus and the Rift, and we're working on that as we speak. We're going to be in retail staering in April"

Rift demos will be available in more than 600 retail locations across the US, Canada and Europe. There will be many more games available for the device once it goes on sale as well as more to be announced at Gamescon in Cologne, Germany. But there are lots of things should know about the Facebook owned headset.

1. Waiting list for Oculus Rift:
   Though the product is launched in April, it is not easy to get the product immediately. There was an instant backlog when pre-orders opened in February and even now you have to wait over a month to get the headset once the order is done.
2. VR Ready Computer Setup:
   You can't run your Oculus Rift - or HTC Vive on any PC. For this you have to upgrade your graphics card. You'll need a minimum of an Intel i5-4590(so a mid - 2014 chip), 8GB of RAM, three USB 3 and at least one USB 2 port, Windows 7 SPI 64 bit or newer and an Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD R9 290 graphics card.
3. Rift MAC Version is not coming soon:
   If you're a MAC user and waiting on Oculus to bring MAC support to RIFT, don't hold your breath. "Linux Support is on the roadmap post-launch, MAC support is on the roadmap post-decent Apple hardware release, whenever that is." - told company creator, Palmer Luckey.
4. Specs are same as HTC Vive, but Vive feels better:
   Rift and Vive have identical spec sheets, resolution of 1200 x 1080 pixels per eye, a 110-degree field of view and refresh rate is 90Hz. In all honesty, Vive just edges ahead of the Rift to its brighter, higher-contrast display and sharper Fresnel lenses.
5. Rift is cheaper than Vive but more expansive than Playstation VR:
   Oculus Rift sits in the middle at £500 where HTC Vive is more expensive at £690. The cheapest option , by far, is Sony's Playstation VR.
   
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@Scale conference schedule for 31 August 2016

@Scale conference schedule for 31 August 2016

The @Scale Conference is an event for engineers who build at scale. The focal point of @Scale Community is to gather people to openly discuss the challenges and concerts the development of the new solutions. Building applications and services that scale to millions or even billions of people presents a complex set of engineering revolutionary challenges.

Registration is now open for the 2016 @Scale Conference. It requires access code. If you don't have an access code you can message on @Scale community page athttps://www.facebook.com/atscaleevents/. The event will be held at the San Jose Convention Center on August 31, 2016 starting at 10am, and will feature talks from engineers at Airbnb, Amazon, Databricks, Dropbox, Facebook, Flipkart, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Netflix, NVIDIA, Oculus, Paypal, Pinterest, Slack, Spotify, Uber and more.

The discussion will cover best practices from some of the industry's leading engineering terms. Confirmed topics include APIs for massive parallel efficiency, data visualization techniques, in-house mobile testing tools, IPv6 updates, new compression algorithms, open source applications, video stabilization updates, machine learning applications, and others. Mainly the event discussion will be focused on four tracks: Data, Dev Tools & Ops, Mobile and Machine Learning and Video.

The whole event begins at 10am. RSVP soon - space is limited. The $150 registration fee includes access to all four tracks, the keynotes, breakfast, lunch, and the cocktail hour.

Topic for discussions are divided into four parts

1. Data Track
2. Mobile Track
3. Dev Tools & Ops Track
4. Hot Topics Track

Agenda:

08:00 am to 10:00 am	Registration and Breakfast
10:00 am to 11:00 am	Keynotes Jay Parikh, head of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, will start the event with a keynote address. Himagiri Mukkamala, Head of Engineering, Predix, GE Digital, will discuss about the technical challenges faced in GE. He will explain how scale companies learn from each other to make software easy for machine and for all.
11:00 am - 11:25 am	DATA Uber's data Virtualization Task by Shan He, Uber: While using graphics in the browser, many markup languages like SVG to OpenGL based APIs like WebGL are used to create the better visualization. The talk will cover the available standards, libraries, and the open source stack that Uber developed for visual analytics, mapping, and public-facing data visualizations ranging from SVG and D3 to WebGL and beyond.
11:00 am - 11:40 am	MOBILE Architecting Pinterest for Consistency & Performance at Scale by Scott Goodson, Pinterest : He will discuss the iOS app which team work on popular AsyncDisplayKit framework
11:00 am - 11:25 am	DEV TOOLS & OPS DevOps and Containerization at Scale by Jigar Desai, Paypal : Since the split from eBay in 2015 PayPal has turbo charged DevOps - moving from one release every two months to 200 releases a day. A key example of this in action is adopting Docker as containerization technology to enhance our developer experience, reduce drift in different environments like test and production and to bring higher efficiency of resource utilization in our data centers. This session will discuss PayPal's journey to docker-ize 2500 apps and hundreds of thousands of container instances.
11:00 am - 11:25 am	HOT TOPICS A new way to optimize 360 video for a better viewing experience byJohannes Kopf, Facebook : Facebook wants to ensure a high-quality, consistent viewing experience regardless of the capture device or conditions. Johannes Kopf's talk will present a new optimization the company has developed to improve one aspect of 360 video viewing quality across Facebook and the Oculus platform, while preserving (and even improving) upload/playback speed and efficiency
11:30 am - 11:55 am	DATA Real Time data compression at scale by Yann Collet, Facebook : How the computing world has changed dramatically in the past two decades based on Phil Katz compression algorithm released on 1993 which is commonly known as Zip and used in the most of the system. Could these changes be taken in consideration to create a new, and unconditionally better, algorithm?
11:40 am - 12:00 pm	MOBILE Shipping mobile apps smart and fast at scale by Anne Ruggirello & Felix Wong, Facebook : In the mobile world, developers aspire to getting features out as fast as possible. In this talk, Facebook will compare the traditional industry approach and the agile approach used at Facebook. The speaker will talk about techniques and tips that allow you to move as fast as possible and yet maintain high quality.
11:30 am - 11:55 am	DEV TOOLS & OPS Addressing continuous deployment's resource creep at scale byAdrian Zgorzalek, Facebook : Facebook will describe the approach to dealing with resource creep at scale, and the tools and approaches that are used to identify and correct resource creep for Facebook's PHP developers with regressions on the online data storage and access infrastructure.
11:30 am - 11:55 am	HOT TOPICS GPUs and deep learning deployments at scale by Robert Ober, Tesla Chief Platform Architect, NVIDIA : He will discuss about GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) architectural evolution and changing neural net computation demands.
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm	DATA Unifying big data workloads in Apache Spark by Matei Zaharia, Databricks : Apache Spark was designed to offer a unified engine across diverse workloads, such as SQL, streaming, and batch analytics. The talk will cover how having a unified engine enabled new types of applications based on Spark (such as interactive queries over streams), and how Databricks designed Spark's APIs to enable efficient composition. It will also sketch the newest unified API in Spark, Structured Streaming, which lets the engine run batch SQL or DataFrame computations incrementally over a stream of data.
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm	MOBILE Building the Quip editor for iOS by Yunjie Ma, Quip : Quip is available across eight platforms, all of which share a single HTM5/Javascript editor. This talk will go over the architecture behind Quip's editor, its evolution as the company adopted React, and how it connects to its native iOS framework.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS Netflix: Engineering the Cloud by Dianne Marsh, Netflix : Decisions Netflix made early on facilitated later choices. In this talk, we will discuss how decisions have built upon one another and led to a highly resilient service. But the architecture isn't perfect. We'll talk about some of the complexities and future work that may ultimately simplify and streamline dependencies.
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	HOT TOPICS SnapUI: Building fast and scalable UIs in VR by Khoi Nguyen, Oculus : React and FLUX are ground breaking technologies and approaches that have taken the web development world by storm. The team was able to build a fast, stable, disciplined and scalable VR product from the ground up. The UI framework built to do this is called SnapUI, and the team will share the approaches they used in achieving their goals.
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm	"Office Hours" and Break: In the mean time any one can meet previous speaker like Shan He at Uber, Yann Collet at Facebook, etc.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm	DATA Amazon Aurora: An under-the-hood view of a cloud-scale relational database service by Debanjan Saha, Amazon : This talk will be based on Amazon Aurora - a relational database service designed for the cloud. Amazon Aurora is a disruptive technology in the database space, bringing a new architectural model and distributed systems techniques to provide far higher performance, availability and durability. Amazon will also share interesting use cases from thousands of customers who are running production workloads on Amazon Aurora.
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm	MOBILE GraphQL in native applications at scale by Igor Canadi & Alex Langenfeld, Facebook : Flipkart's Amar Nagaram will be sharing some of the challenges of building with a mobile-first approach in India and the technology investments it made while adopting a mobile-first approach to everything it did; he'll also explain why Flipkart became the first Indian app to cross 50 million downloads in India.
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS BrowserLab: Fully automated regression detection for the web byJeffrey Dunn, Facebook : This talk will cover techniques that Facebook is applying to handle highly dynamic content, isolate server variance from client-side performance, deal with nondeterministic code, and enable engineers to understand performance implications of their changes
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm	HOT TOPICS Deep learning in production At Facebook by Andrew Tulloch & Yangqing Jia, Facebook : From advertising relevance, news feed and search ranking to computer vision, face recognition, and speech recognition, Facebook runs Machine Language models at massive scale, computing trillions of predictions every day. The talk will be about some of the tools and tricks we use for scaling both the training and deployment of some of our deep learning models at Facebook. It will also cover some useful libraries that we've open-sourced for production-oriented deep learning applications.
2:30pm - 2:55pm	DATA MyRocks: Space and write optimized OLTP database by Yoshinori Matsunobu, Facebook : Facebook created and open-sourced a next generation OLTP SQL database on modern Flash storage called MyRocks - a RocksDB storage engine for MySQL. Facebook has used MySQL and UDB (largest database tires) which serves social activities such as comment, like, share etc.To optimize the space, Facebook wanted to utilize existing MySQL assets and created a new storage engine RockDB - MyRock. In this session the speaker will introduce MyRocks, its architecture, and how Facebook is using MyRocks now.
2:30pm - 2:55pm	MOBILE A practical guide to writing solid UI tests on Android by Valera Zakharov, Slack : Developer-driven testing is a great way to scale quality control as your team grows and code churn rises. While most developers are sold on unit testing their code, they are often intimidated by UI testing. In this session, Slack will share its thoughts on why it's worth having developers write UI tests for their features, as well as present practical information on how the Slack Android team approached this problem.
2:30pm - 2:55pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS Blazing fast: Scaling iOS at Uber by Alan Zeino, Uber : In the past year, Uber's Mobile Platform team has made major changes to improve development speed and agility for its engineers, with a focus on stability and meeting a high quality bar for its software; Alan Zeino will outline tooling and infrastructure changes that help its engineers check their code into master faster than ever before, and the recent effort to migrate all code into a monolithic repository using the Buck build tool - laying a foundation for future experimentation and growth in Uber's toolchain
3:00 pm - 3:25 pm	DATA No shard left behind: APIs for massive parallel efficiency by Dan Halperin, Google : Apache Beam evolved from a decade of system-building at Google, and Beam pipelines run today on both open source (Apache Flink, Apache Spark) and proprietary (Google Cloud Dataflow) runners. Google will discuss how these APIs enable a Beam data processing pipeline runner to dynamically rebalance work at runtime, to work around stragglers, and to automatically scale up and down cluster size as a job's workload changes.
3:00 pm - 3:25 pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS Benchmarking the cloud to build applications that work by Ivan Filho, Google : In this talk, Google will cover its pursue of a fair and meaningful Cloud benchmarking framework, PerfKit Benchmarker, from one of its performance engineers' perspective. The talk will cover the challenges and pitfalls the team faced in defining what matters, in addition to common customer challenges, and share how they were tackled.
3:00 pm - 3:25 pm	HOT TOPICS Creating and scaling Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist by Edward Newett, Spotify : Discover Weekly is a personalized mixtape of 30 highly personalized songs that's curated and delivered to Spotify's 100M active users every Monday. It's received high acclaim in the press and reached over 5B streams from 40M users since launch. In this talk we dive into the narrative of how Discover Weekly came to be, highlighting technical challenges, data-driven development, and the machine learning models used to power our recommendations engine.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	"Office Hours" and Break: During this break any one can meet previous speaker like Debanjan Saha at Amazon, Yoshinori Matsunobu at Facebook, etc.
3:30 pm - 3:55 pm	MOBILE Building with a mobile-first approach in India by Amar Nagaram, Flipkart : Flipkart will be sharing some of the challenges this throws at e-commerce businesses and how the company transformed itself and its technology to make things happen for its customers.
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm	DATA Dropbox Infinite : A different kind of distrubted system by Ben Newhouse, Dropbox : Project Infinite is one of the biggest evolutions in the Dropbox product since the shared folder, enabling users to see all of the content across their entire team on their local computer without syncing it first (and instead syncing it on demand). This talk will explore how a hack week project turned into a major company initiative, the technical decisions and trade-off in its design, and how Dropbox keeps the quality bar high as it wields deeper and deeper integrations into the filesystem across hundreds of millions of devices.
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm	MOBILE HTTP2 server push: Lower latencies around the world by Ranjeeth Dasineni & Saral Shodhan, Facebook : With HTTP2 push, Facebook has built out a new client/server interaction model, which now makes it possible for the company's Edge/FBCDN servers to 'push' required images and Live streams from the server for a News Feed story or on-going live stream. HTTP2 Server push features are now available to the public. This talk will cover how Facebook leverages HTTP2 to achieve lower latencies.
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm	Dev Tools & Ops Active fault finding in networks by Richard Sheehan, Facebook : He will explain about networking tools. If there is any fault in these tools, they indicate itself by syslog. But always it is not true. Richard will explain about network devices which drops packet even if it exist several layer inside the network.
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm	HOT TOPICS Machine learning at scale: FBLearner Flow by Pierre Andrews & Aditya Kalro, Facebook : This talk will focus on the training and distributing hundreds of models, monitoring performances, and sharing algorithms in a production environment requires tools to simplify the daily tasks of ML engineers. The former is a pipeline management system that facilitates experimentation, training, and comparison of models; the latter is an inference framework that uses the models to provide real-time inferences in production.
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm	DATA Airbnb's data evolution: Lessons from building a world-class data ecosystem byJames Mayfield and Swaroop Jagadish, Airbnb : Airbnb's mission is twofold: Empower employees to make data-informed decisions, and ensure that the Airbnb product learns from user feedback. From three years ago to today, the data teams rebuilt every major component of Airbnb's stack, stabilized the foundation of its platform, grew its suite of tools, created canonical data sets. They have done this while the company is in the midst of experiencing hypergrowth.
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm	MOBILE Octopus takes on the Uber challenge by Bian Jiang & Madhav Srinivasan, Uber: This talk will be based on how Uber implemented network record/replay and scenariobased testing for iOS/Android so its tests would run reliably on CI, covering the challenges faced and the lessons learned on the path to designing Uber's frameworks to ensure that its devs could write predictable and deterministic tests.
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS Experimentation at Scale & Replicated RocksDB at Pinterest byChunyan Wang & Bo Liu, Pinterest : Discussion will be based on Pinterest's technical challenges and approaches to A/B testing and experimentation in general, and how, with RocksDB, the company has built stateful online services on replicated RocksDB to create high throughput and low latency online services operating on multiple large online updated and/or offline data sets to power many Pinterest products
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm	HOT TOPICS Managing an Open Source Program at Scale by Brandon Keepers of GitHub, Andrew Spyker of Netflix, Jeff McAffer of Microsoft : They will explain about open source software which mostly tech company using. They will explain it by tools, process and team structure to manage open source program
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	DATA Ambry: Open source scalable geodistributed object store by Priyesh Narayanan & Holla Gopalakrishna, LinkedIn : Ambry is an open source, geodistributed, highly available, and horizontally scalable object store built at LinkedIn. The focus of this talk will be the architecture of Ambry and how the design decisions help it scale for both large and small objects. It will also cover how Ambry helped solve the main pain points of LinkedIn's legacy media store. Finally, LinkedIn will talk about the roadmap and about getting involved in this open source initiative.
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm	MOBILE Getting the most out of static analyzers by Sam Blackshear, facebook : Static analysis framework help to report bug early in development process. It is also used for analysis.
5:00 pm - 5:25 pm	DEV TOOLS & OPS Running Instagram by Lisa Guo, Instagram : Instagram is a social network mobile app that allows people to share the world's moments as they happen. It serves 300 million users on a daily basis throughout the world. In this talk, Topics will include a brief history of infrastructure evolution; overall architecture and multi-data center support; tuning of uwsgi parameters for scaling; performance monitoring and diagnosis; and django/python upgrade (why, challenges, and lessons learned).
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	HOT TOPICS "Office Hours" and Break : Break to meet with Pierre Andrews and Aditya Kalro at Facebook, Brandon Keepers at GitHub, Surupa Biswas at Facebook, Jeff McAffer at Microsoft, and Andrew Spyker at Netflix for Q&A from the Hot Topics track.
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm	"Office Hours" and Break : During this period you can meet previous track speakers: Ben Newhouse at Dropbox, James Mayfield and Swaroop Jagadish at Google, and Priyesh Narayanan and Holla Gopalakrishna at LinkedIn. Mobile Track Speakers: Ranjeeth Dasineni and Saral Shodhan at Facebook, Bian Jiang and Madhav Srinivasan at Uber, and Sam Blackshear at Facebook. Dev Tools/Ops Track Speakers: Richard Sheehan at Facebook, Chunyan Wang and Bo Liu at Pinterest, and Lisa Guo at Instagram.
05:00 pm to 07:00 pm	Cocktail Hour

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