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Not products in the typical sense, but these are some interesting technologies coming out of Facebook that I can list off the top of my head (many of which I ha

Not products in the typical sense, but these are some interesting technologies coming out of Facebook that I can list off the top of my head (many of which I have used personally): * https://engineering.fb.com/2014/06/10/web/open-sourcing-haxl-a-library-for-haskell/ https://engineering.fb.com/2014/06/10/web/open-sourcing-haxl... * https://osquery.io/ https://osquery.io/ * https://rocksdb.org/ https://rocksdb.org/ * https://fbinfer.com/ https://fbinfer.com/ * https://flow.org/ https://flow.org/ * https://prepack.io/ https://prepack.io/

Kranar 6y ago
I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer. Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms?
- cstrahan 6y ago
  > I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer. Correct. > Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms? No -- precisely opposite. Your response confused me quite a lot, but after some thought, I think I've realized how things have become mixed up. I took this for sarcasm: > Which innovation of Facebook are you describing? Instagram, WhatsApp, or the stories? Why did I take that for sarcasm? Because it is apparent to me that Instagram, WhatsApp and stories are not innovative. So I thought the main point of the poster I was replying to was to take a dig at Facebook. I didn't realize that we were in agreement about the importance of data structures and algorithms, but then I also didn't realize that we were still on that topic: my intention was purely to refute the [what I believed to be the implied] notion that nothing innovative was happening at Facebook.
  - Kranar 6y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. We're in total agreement.
  - xiphias2 6y ago
    I listed the most innovative things that happened. They were product innovations that could have killed Facebook as a company, not RocksDB or React. At the same time I'm a software engineer, and I could write a database much easier than create something that grows faster than Facebook. I use instagram and WhatsApp, no Facebook anymore (except messenger), as young people went there (and I'm following). TikTok is a bit too much for me though, I think creating videos for it takes too much time, while for Instagram it's easy to take nice photos while I'm travelling.
xiphias2 6y ago
You just listed a lot of tools where a deep knowledge of data structures is extremely important :) Most of these things need to be created to scale and stabilize the existing system.

Kranar 6y ago

I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer. Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms?

cstrahan 6y ago
> I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer. Correct. > Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and algorithms? No -- precisely opposite. Your response confused me quite a lot, but after some thought, I think I've realized how things have become mixed up. I took this for sarcasm: > Which innovation of Facebook are you describing? Instagram, WhatsApp, or the stories? Why did I take that for sarcasm? Because it is apparent to me that Instagram, WhatsApp and stories are not innovative. So I thought the main point of the poster I was replying to was to take a dig at Facebook. I didn't realize that we were in agreement about the importance of data structures and algorithms, but then I also didn't realize that we were still on that topic: my intention was purely to refute the [what I believed to be the implied] notion that nothing innovative was happening at Facebook.
- Kranar 6y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. We're in total agreement.
- xiphias2 6y ago
  I listed the most innovative things that happened. They were product innovations that could have killed Facebook as a company, not RocksDB or React. At the same time I'm a software engineer, and I could write a database much easier than create something that grows faster than Facebook. I use instagram and WhatsApp, no Facebook anymore (except messenger), as young people went there (and I'm following). TikTok is a bit too much for me though, I think creating videos for it takes too much time, while for Instagram it's easy to take nice photos while I'm travelling.

xiphias2 6y ago

You just listed a lot of tools where a deep knowledge of data structures is extremely important :) Most of these things need to be created to scale and stabilize the existing system.