Tag: Facebook

It’s not fair to ask that type of question, as there is so much going on at Facebook, and handling billions of parallel requests relies on many things. And there is no diagram that can illustrate that. So instead let’s focus on a system that Facebook developers built known as Async. S...

Iposted an ad on Facebook a couple of months ago that was targeted to Black women. A white woman jumped into my comments to tell me I was racist. It was remarkable and unremarkable at the same time. Reverse racism isn’t a real thing, but she didn’t know that. I am a Diversity, ...

So fast forward to last week. After building a relationship over the course of nearly two years, I finally interviewed New York Times bestselling author, Resmaa Menakem, for my Mind-Blowing Happiness™ Podcast. You see, I’m not just a DEI speaker, I’m a transformational co...

Since Sean Taylor and Ben Letham open-sourced Prophet in 2017, it has remained a popular tool for forecasting time series, especially in business and planning contexts where we want to model human activity and consumption (e.g. website traffic, video hours watched). To ...

I left Facebook long time ago. I was a pretty early adopter but after it swallowed roughly 2 hours (I was managing a photography group with 18K members at the time) of my time on a daily basis I made the hard decision and left it. At first it wasn’t easy. I missed social occasions th...