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Facebook の Folly（愚行）って、中年の危機みたいな名前をヨットにつけるようで、なかなかイカしていない？しかし、それは、スピードと使い易さを考慮し、また、既存の C++ ライブラリとのインターオペラビリティも実現する、大規模な C++ ユーティリティーなのである。この、再利用が可能な C++ ライブラリのコレクションは、Facebook エンジニアの要求を満たすために、インハウスで開発されたものである。これまでに、Cassandra／HipHop／Thrift などをオープンソース化してきたように、Facebook のデベロッパーたちは、この Folly をオープンソース･ソフトウェアの領域に置いた。

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Today, Facebook announced a very exciting initiative called the Open Compute Project. It promises to open a vast amount of expertise to the market including the technology used in their servers, power supplies, server racks, battery backup systems and building design, and to do it as efficiently and as “green” as possible. And through collaboration with partners like Rackspace, Dell and Intel and the broader community overall — all of whom have substantial expertise in the underlying infrastructure of cloud — it promises to accelerate the overall industry knowledge base substantially. This is “open source” at its best. Open Compute is commoditizing and standardizing a layer that has traditionally been proprietary and secret, accessible only to a few. In opening this up to the world, we are not only able to consume it, but also collaborate and contribute to advance the project, so we all benefit from the best possible technology, processes and design.

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-welcomes-facebook-open-compute-project/