In the last few years, the social network has accelerated its contributions to open source, providing not only code it uses in its own operations, such as its artificial intelligence software Torch, but also designs for servers and entire data centers. At the company’s F8 conference for developers and business partners this week, Facebook’s open source leaders announced continued progress on such projects as React Native, which helps developers use the same code on different operating systems.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has often talked up the way open source fits the company’s culture of sharing. And at F8, developer advocate Christine Abernathy outlined how Facebook depends on open source software for every pixel in its news feed.
In an Apr. 13 interview at F8, Facebook’s open source chief James Pearce provided more details on the nature of Facebook’s own open source work, including the challenges of “making sure that engineers throughout the company behave themselves and do the right thing“ and the benefits to the company’s recruiting. Following is an edited version of the conversation.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2016/04/15/inside-facebooks-open-source-machine/#33073fa13286
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