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Fetched June 8th, 2026
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Lights Out, Systems On: Validating Instant Power Loss Readiness

Meta needed to validate and ensure their data center infrastructure could survive instantaneous power loss without data corruption or service degradation.

chaos-engineering distributed-systems
5 min
Fetched June 1st, 2026
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SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems

Meta needed to improve the throughput and compute efficiency of retrieval systems for recommendation engines that process user-generated content at massive scale.

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5 min