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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RIO Olympic Opening Ceremony at Facebook

RIO Olympic Opening Ceremony at Facebook

The Opening Ceremony of Summer Olympics Games, RIO 2016, prompted 109 million interactions from 52 millon facebook users and 52 million interactions from 21 million Instagram Users. Facebook will provide a global stadium where people can connect and get the updated information about the World's biggest sports moments. People can cheer up to their favourite player or team throuh this platform. Facebook mentioned in an email to the social media that 15 million users had 40 million interactions in Brazil, 12 million People had 23 million interactions in U.S. Across the globe, 52 million people had 109 million interactions related to the opening ceremony.

The countries with the highest percentage of monthly active users who engaged with the opening ceremony on Facebook were :

1. Brazil : 13 percent
2. Argentina : 7 percent
3. Mexico : 7 percent
4. U.S : 6 percent
5. Peru : 5 percent

As for Instagram, the top hashtags used in posts related to the Opening Ceremony were :

1. #rio2016
2. #olympics
3. #olimpiadas2016
4. #rio
5. #olimpiadas
6. #riodejanerio
7. #brasil
8. #openingceremony
9. #olympics2016
10. #brazil

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Registration open for OCP Technology Day - 30th August

Registration open for OCP Technology Day - 30th August

 

The Open Compute Project(OCP) foundation will host a series of engineering workshops in 2016 to build and grow the OCP Community. First day of this event will take place from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm on 30th August, 2016 at Facebook in Menlo Park, Califonia. The Open Compute Project(OCP) Foundation is an organization which was founded in 2011 by Facebook, Intel, Rackspace, Goldman Sachs and Andy Bechtolsheim. You can know more about OCP community athttp://opencompute.org/participate

The main motive of this workshop are:

1. Drive the product-ionization of OCP's specifications
2. Implementation of OCP's legal framework (CLA and OCPHLs)
3. Building out/addressing technologies for new sector
4. Take into account/understand the suppliers needs and OCP partner's needs
5. Solidify specification versioning pipeline, release process, naming conventions
6. Increase community participation and stickiness
7. Increase the OCP technology portfolio; depth and breadth of specifications and charters

This event is designed to encourage, empower and inspire the OCP Community to communicate, collaborate and contribute. These workshops are totally free to the public but registration is required. Seats are limited but they maintain waitlist for this event also.

Individuals who wish to participate and to be a member of OCP Organization, create a new profile with valid email-id and by providing the personal information. A great talk will be delivered by the speakers from Facebook, Canonical and Red Hat focusing on deploying and running scale out software such as Openstack, GlusterFS, Metal-as-a-service and others. Participant can easily come to know about how their organization can optimize their infrastructure and minimizing the cost by taking the advantage of open software running on open hardware. Special speakers from Google and Microsoft will also deliver a speech about unique challenges surrounding running servers and storage at massive scale.

Once a user register, their ticket cannot be transferrable to other. If other want to attend, he can contact at registration@opencompute.org

Agenda:

TIME	TOPIC	INFORMATION
09:00 am to 10:00 am	Registration
10:00 am to 10:30 am	Welcome Note	Amber Graner, Operations Director and Community Manager, OCP Foundation
10:30 am to 11:30 am	Facebook Presentation	Title: Gluster; Scale out storage Presenter: Richard Wareing Abstract: This talk provides an in-depth overview of deploying and managing open source Gluster POSIX file system on OCP hardware at scale. Facebook operates one of the largest Gluster environments in the world, and the talk will focus on challenges, approaches and lessons learned from using it under production workloads.
11:30 am to 12:30 am	Red Hat Presentation	Abstract: A talk about the Open Source Software and Hardware for enterprise compute - OpenStack, ManageIQ.org,Ceph.org, Gluster.org and Ansible.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	LUNCH
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Canonical Presentation	Title: Embracing Big Software and Apps on OCP Hardware to Reduce Costs and Accelerate Innovation Presenters: David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnership, and Luke Williams, Open Networking Technical Partner Manager Abstract: Canonical will be presenting how to automate the deployment and management of datacenter servers, storage, and networking using Open Source that enables choice.This includes being able to select your preferred cloud platform like OpenStack, big data solution, SDN, VNF, network control software (FBOSS, Quagga, etc.), and even the operating system on OCP servers and app-enabled OCP networking gear.
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Microsoft Presentation	Title: Open CloudServer vNext - Architecture of the next platform system including compute and storage Presenter: TBD Abstract: TBD
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Google Presentation	Title: Disks for Data Center Presenter: Lawrence Ying Abstract: Disks form the central element of Cloud-based storage, whose demand far outpaces the considerable rate of innovation in disks.Exponential growth in demand, already in progress for 15+ years, implies that most future disks will be in data centers and thus part of a large collection of disks. We describe the "collection view" of disks and how it and the focus on tail latency, driven by live services, place new and different requirements on disks. Beyond defining key metrics for data-center disks, we explore a range of new physical design options and changes to firmware that could improve these metrics.
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Cocktail Social	Facebook

Controlling over Advertisement on Facebook

Controlling over Advertisement on Facebook 

An integral part of marketing, advertisements are public notices designed to inform and motivate. Their objective is to change the thinking pattern (or buying behavior) of the recipient, so that he or she is persuaded to take the action desired by the advertiser. Ads should be relevant, well-made, useful and helping to find out new products and services and introduce a new experience. But ads are not working always in this way.

Many people started to use the add blocking software. This is one complaint that Facebook has discovered users have regarding online advertising - so much so that many have installed ad-blocking software. With so much content moving online, advertisers need to find ways to reach users without irritating them into engaging ad blockers. When facebook asked people about why they used ad blocking software, the primary reason we heard was to stop annoying, disruptive ads.

Facebook has spent the last few years analyzing how best to optimize its ads for a better -- and less distracting user experience. Now, it has unveiled improved ad controls in hopes of improving the experience for users.

Ads control by Facebook :

Facebook has announced two methods to control the ads on Facebook.

First: Facebook will show the more relevant ads based on the apps and websites visited by the users.

Second: Facebook is launching new ad preference tool which will help to make understand the purpose of the ads and will provide you a granular controls to improve the ads you see. You can select the preference of the ads by clicking on the right corner of the ads. You will get those selective ads which you will prefer most.

After taking one survey, it is very clear that users want the relevant ads in his facebook page. But the main challenge is how Facebook will distinguish which ads page should be shown based on the users interest. In the past, We've shown you the ads on facebook page based on their activity such as liking the page, opening the advertisement etc. But it doesn't mean that the users are equally interested in all the ads. Now in order to show you the best ads, Facebook is considering the users activity. we're going to include some of the websites you visit and apps you use to better understand what you're interested in, like many companies already do on the web today. This happens automatically when you visit a website or app that has integrated Facebook functionality.

Let's say you're thinking about buying a new CAR and starting your research on the web. In the past, we might show you an ad for a CAR based on Pages you've liked and similar activity on Facebook. Or we might have shown you an ad for a CAR from a specific marketer's site you visited. But now we can show you ads for CARs from other brands, which may offer a lower price. And because we think you're interested in Automobiles, we may show you ads for other vehicles in the future.

Control over the different kind of ads :

If you don't want to receive any ads in your profile based on your activity in the websites and apps, then you can use the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out tool, which is supported by the Facebook and more than 100 other companies that shows this kind of ads. It is also supported from Android or iOS device.

In addition, Facebook is providing a new ad preference tool, which shows you the purpose of ads and you can easily control the interests associated with you by clicking "Why I am seeing this?" in the upper right corner of any ad in facebook. For example, if "dance" is one of your interests and you want to see fewer ads about "dance," deselect it in ad preferences or choose something else. Your ad preferences will only be visible to you.

Some add blocking companies are showing the ads by accepting the money that was blocked previously - this practice makes the people more confused and they are wondering how the add blocker software is working and they become irritated with the irrelevant ads.

The social network has spent that last few years learning about what its viewers want to see from online advertisements when it comes to content and layout. Now, it has created tools that allow users to customize their ad experience, allowing people to adjust their interests and personalize their advertising experience.

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