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66: Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

Episode 66

Friday, August 30, 2024 • Duration 44:21

Bento is Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Host Pascal is joined by Steve who worked with his team on building many features on top of Jupyter, including scheduled notebooks, sharing with colleagues and running notebooks without a remote server component by leveraging Webassembly in the browser.

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Links

Scheduling Jupyter Notebooks at Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/29/security/scheduling-jupyter-notebooks-meta/
Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/06/10/data-infrastructure/serverless-jupyter-notebooks-bento-meta/
Jupyter Notebooks: https://jupyter.org/

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Intro 0:06
Who is Steve? 1:49
What are Jupyter and Bento? 2:48
Who is Bento for? 3:40
Internal-only Bento features 4:42
Scheduled notebooks 11:39
Integrating with existing batch jobs 17:10
The case for serverless notebooks 20:59
Enter wasm 24:29
Upgrade paths from serverless to server 26:29
Bringing more Python libraries to the browser 30:21
Adding magick(s) 31:52
DataFrame magic and AI 36:41
What's next? 38:29
Outro 43:17

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65: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Episode 65

Monday, July 29, 2024 • Duration 35:49

We don’t know when but at some point in the future we will face what researchers call a "Quantum Apocalypse". This is when quantum computers will be able to break many of our existing encryption algorithms. To keep Meta’a users safe even from attacks that don’t even exist today, Sheran and Rafael are working on post-quantum-ready encryption. Tune in to learn about the various challenges and trade offs that this work brings with it.

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Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2024/05/22/security/post-quantum-readiness-tls-pqr-meta/
Fizz TLS implementation: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fizz
liboqs: https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Submissions: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/post-quantum-cryptography-standardization/round-3-submissions

57: Writing and linting Python at scale

Episode 57

Monday, October 30, 2023 • Duration 49:32

Python at Meta is huge. Not only does it famously power Instagram's backend, but it underpins our configuration systems, much of our AI work and many services. Amethyst joins Pascal for this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about how the Python Foundation Team works to improve the developer experience of everyone working with Python at Meta and Fixit 2, the freshly open-sourced linter framework built on top of libcst.

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Fixit 2 announcement post: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/07/developer-tools/fixit-2-linter-meta/
Fixit: https://fixit.readthedocs.io
µfmt: https://ufmt.omnilib.dev
µsort: https://usort.readthedocs.io
LibCST: https://libcst.readthedocs.io
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Buck2: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/10/23/developer-tools/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-buck2/

56: How Threads was built in 5 months

Episode 56

Friday, September 29, 2023 • Duration 31:10

Threads went from idea to 100M users in just about five months. This would not have been possible without building on top of Meta's existing systems and infrastructure. Join Pascal as he speaks with Joy, Cameron and Richard, three engineers from the Threads team who worked on backend, iOS and Android, respectively to learn about the challenges they faced along the way.

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Threads: https://threads.net
Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app - https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/
Litho: https://fblitho.com/

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Intro 0:00
Introductions 0:56
Intro: Cameron 1:42
Intro: Joy 2:06
Intro: Richard 2:30
Early Days at Threads 3:03

55: What it's like to ship code at Meta

Episode 55

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 • Duration 49:04

For episode 55, Pascal speaks with Katherine and returning guest Dustin, two software engineers at Meta about how to ship code at Meta. Why do we have a monorepo? Why and how do we do pre-commit code review? What does our CI infrastructure look like? Get the answers to these questions and many more in this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast.

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The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture - Engineering At Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/06/ios/facebook-ios-app-architecture/
Episode 47: Source control at Meta - https://pca.st/episode/429e9f38-6537-43e3-b929-fbeeda326ed5

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Intro 0:06
Intro Katherine 1:55
Dustin's Origin Story 4:38
Topic Intro 6:28
Why Monorepo(s) 7:18
What Makes Monorepos Hard? 12:15
Why do we Have so Many Files? 17:31

54: Building Key Transparency at WhatsApp

Episode 54

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 • Duration 43:23

In April, WhatsApp announced the launch of a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. Key transparency helps strengthen the guarantee that end-to-end encryption provides to private, personal messaging applications in a transparent manner available to all.

Rolling out a feature like this to WhatsApp's user base is not a small feat and requires some clever engineering to scale to the billions of users relying on WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends, family and business.

Pascal is joined by Sean and Kevin to discuss what Key Transparency means in practice and the various challenges they encountered as they scaled it up to billions of users.

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Infer: https://fbinfer.com/
Infer on GitHub: https://github.com/facebook/infer
MTP Episode 18 about Infer: https://pca.st/5U9V
Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp - Engineering at Meta: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/04/13/security/whatsapp-key-transparency/

53: Offensive security at Meta’s Red Team X

Episode 53

Thursday, June 29, 2023 • Duration 41:38

Red Team X is a security team at Meta that is responsible for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party products that could impact Meta's own security. The team acts as a hybrid between a traditional red team, which focuses on probing their own organisation's systems and products for vulnerabilities, and an elite bug-hunting group.

The team was founded by Vlad I. in 2020 when the pandemic and the sudden shift to Work From Home challenged various previously-held assumptions about security.

In his discussion with Pascal, Vlad explains the roles of different security teams within Meta, how they go about prioritising the highest-impact targets to exploit and how they work with vendors to ensure not just Meta but the entire world benefits from the fixes produced.

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Links:

The Diff episode about Velox: https://thediffpodcast.com/docs/episode-17
Risky Business Podcast: https://risky.biz/
RTX Blog: https://rtx.meta.security
RTX Disclosures: https://rtx.meta.security/bugs

52: The success story behind PyTorch

Episode 52

Friday, June 2, 2023 • Duration 32:36

PyTorch is now one of the most popular machine learning frameworks out there but that was not a foregone conclusion when it was released in 2016. Our host Pascal is joined by Suraj, a developer advocate here at Meta, to dissect the history of PyTorch and look at the factors that contributed to its success. That includes understanding your target audience, maintaining backwards compatibility, fostering a helpful community and so much more.

You don't need to be an expert in PyTorch to enjoy the discussion as Suraj explains all the basics.

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Links:

Meta Open Source Blog: Creating Safe Spaces for Underrepresented Individuals in Open Source Communities - https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2023/05/31/creating-safe-spaces/
PyTorch Developer Podcast - https://pytorch-dev-podcast.simplecast.com/
PyTorch - https://pytorch.org/
PyTorch on GitHub - https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework -

51: Buck2 - a large-scale build system

Episode 51

Thursday, April 6, 2023 • Duration 32:53

For episode 51, Pascal speaks with Neil and Marie, two of the engineers behind Buck2, our open source, large scale build system. Thousands of developers at Meta are already using Buck2 and performing millions of builds per day that on average complete in half the time of Buck1 builds. Marie and Neil discuss the design choices that make Buck2 so much faster and the various challenges they faced in engineering and open sourcing the build system.

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Links

Announcement blog post: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/04/06/open-source/buck2-open-source-large-scale-build-system/
Buck2: https://buck2.build/
Buck2 on GitHub: https://github.com/facebook/buck2
Build Systems à la Carte - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/build-systems.pdf
Lexical YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpv0BYhhlak
Lexical for iOS: https://github.com/facebook/lexical-ios

50: De-identified authentication at scale

Episode 50

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 • Duration 34:45

If you hear privacy and your first thought is laborious processes and access management, this interview may be just as mind-expanding for you as it was for our host Pascal. He is joined by Alex and Haozhi who talk about the Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. They discuss the cryptographic primitives powering the service and the various challenges they encountered scaling it to support Meta's products.

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Links

How Meta enables de-identified authentication at scale - https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/30/security/de-identified-authentication-at-scale/
Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service - https://engineering.fb.com/2022/12/12/security/anonymous-credential-service-acs-open-source/
ACS on GitHub - https://github.com/facebookresearch/acs
ReactJS - The Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDqJVdNa44

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