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Face Book Open Source Technologies

Introduction Facebook has been developed from the ground up using open source software. Developers building with Platform scale their own applications using many of the same infrastructure technologies that power Facebook. Platform Our Platform engineering team has released and maintains open source SDKs for Android , C# , iPhone , JavaScript , PHP , and Python . Developer tools codemod assists with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight and occasional intervention. Facebook Animation is a JavaScript library for creating customizable animations using DOM and CSS manipulation. flvtool++ is a tool for hinting and manipulating the metadata of FLV files. It was originally created for Facebook Video . Online Schema Change for MySQL lets you alter large database tables without taking your cluster offline. PHPEmbed makes embedding PHP truly simple for all of our developers (and indeed the world) we de...