Technical Papers, Open Source, Blog Posts, and News Coverage

Here are links to some of the publicly available documents about projects that I have been involved in.

• Messaging Platform
  • Blog Post: Building Mobile-First Infrastructure for Messenger
• Video Infrastructure
  • Blog Post: Looking back on ‘Look Back’ videos
    • News Coverage: The Verge, Examiner, USA Today
• Core Systems and Building Blocks for Services
  • Conference Paper: Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook [ SOSP’15 ]
  • Conference Paper: Bistro: Scheduling Data-Parallel Jobs Against Live Production Systems [ USENIX ATC’15 ]
  • Open Source Project: Warp speed Data Transfer
  • Conference Paper: Wormhole: Reliable Pub-Sub to Support Geo-replicated Internet Services [ NSDI’15 ]
  • Open Source Project: Bistro: A toolkit for making services that schedule and execute tasks
  • Blog Post: Wormhole pub/sub system: Moving data through space and time
• Academics
  • Fostering Research @ Facebook
• BLOB Storage for Photos and Videos
  • Conference Paper: RIPQ: Advanced Photo Caching on Flash for Facebook [ FAST’15 ]
  • Conference Paper: f4: Facebook’s Warm BLOB Storage System [ OSDI’14 ]
  • Conference Paper: An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching [ SOSP’13 ]
  • Conference Paper: Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook’s photo storage [ OSDI’10 ]
  • Blog Post: An analysis of Facebook photo caching
• Exabyte-Scale Cold Storage
  • Blu-Ray Based Cold Storage System
    • News Coverage: ARS Technica, The Verge, Gizmodo, Forbes, CNN
  • Disk-Based Cold Storage
    • News Coverage: GigaOm, PC Magazine, Read Write, Data Center Knowledge
• Cross-Datacenter Architecture
  • Conference Paper: Challenges to Adopting Stronger Consistency at Scale [ HotOS’15 ]
  • Conference Paper: Existential Consistency: Measuring and Understanding Consistency at Facebook [ SOSP’15 ]
  • Blog Post: How Project Triforce Prepared our Software Stack for Prineville
    • News Coverage: The Register, GigaOm, PC World, CIO, Data Center Knowledge
• Power and Energy Management
  • Conference Paper: Revisiting Memory Errors in Large-Scale Production Data Centers: Analysis and Modeling of New Trends from the Field [ DNS’15 ]
  • Conference Paper: A Large-Scale Study of Flash Memory Failures in the Field [ SIGMETRICS’15 ]
  • Blog Post: Making Facebook’s software infrastructure more energy efficient with Autoscale
• Site Reliability and Efficiency
  • Blog Post: Every Millisecond Counts
  • Blog Post: Keeping the Site Reliable While Moving Fast