xfb2xfb (https://github.com/greko6/xfb2xfb)
by ex-Facebookers, for ex-Facebookers - a lookup table of similar tech & services
No confidental projects, please.
Inspired by: xg2xg, Venkat V Note (private), Martin K Post (private)
| Facebook Internal | Open Source / Real-World | Cloud / Commercial | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bento | Zeppelin, Jupyter | Databricks | |
| Buck | Buck, Pants, Bazel | ||
| BunnyLOL | Jack Bunny, Gopherlol | ||
| CaptureTheFlag | CaptureTheFlag | Secure Code Warrior | |
| Codemod | Codemod | ||
| Configerator | Protoconf | ||
| Crash Reporting | Firebase Crashlytics, sentry.io | ||
| Cubism | Cubism | ||
| DataSwarm | AirFlow | ||
| Daiquery | Jupyter | Databricks | |
| Deltoid | Growthbook | Statsig, Google Optimize | |
| Dotsync | Dotsync | No native support for automatically saving/loading config changes | |
| Eden / HG | Sapling | ||
| FBLearner Flow | TFX, Metaflow, Flyte | Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning | |
| FBNet | NSOT | ||
| FBNet fcr | FCR | ||
| FBpush | FBpush | ||
| FBTrace | Jaegar, Zipkin, LightStep | ||
| FOQS | Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ | Google PubSub, Amazon SQS | Similar to Iris, but more general. Used to support FB's Async Tier. |
| Entities | ent | ||
| Excalidraw | Excalidraw | ||
| Gatekeeper, JustKnobs | Growthbook,Flag Smith | LaunchDarkly, Google Optimize, Flag Smith, Statsig (SaaS, exfb) | |
| GraphQL | GraphQL | Dgraph Hasura | Hasura is graphQL on postgres in Haskell, Dgraph is graphQL with a scalable graph database with Raft in Go |
| Hive | Clickhouse | BigQuery | |
| Hipster | Casbin, Keycloak | ||
| Hypershell | ClusterSSH | ||
| iData | Datahub | select star | |
| Internal FB Groups | Workplace, Threads (exfb) | ||
| Internal Messenger | Workplace, Slack, Threads (exfb), Discord, TeamChat | ||
| Internal Profiles | Pingboard | ||
| Iris | Apache Kafka | Google PubSub, Amazon SNS | Similar to FOQS but heavier emphasis on sending messages. |
| Mercurial -> Git | git branchless, hg-git | git branchless adds some of the features you know and love from Mercurial to git, or just keep using Mercurial in a git repo using hg-git | |
| NetNorad | NetNorad | ||
| ODS | Prometheus | SignalFX, Datadog, Splunk, Wavefront | |
| Open/R | Open/R | ||
| pfff | pfff | ||
| Phabricator | Phorge, Graphite, Phabricator | Phabricator is no longer maintained as of 2021 | |
| Presto | Trino, PrestoDB | Starburst | |
| PSC | Lattice | ||
| Pulse Surveys | Peakon, Glint | ||
| Quip | HedgeDoc | Quip | |
| Rageshake | Instabug | ||
| Room Tools | Zoom Rooms, Eventboard | ||
| Scuba | Superset+Rockset, MemSQL, Snorkel, Superset+Druid (yt), LocustDB, InfluxDB+Grafana | Honeycomb (SaaS, exfb), Interana, Looker | |
| Scribe | Apache Pulsar, Kafka, Amazon Kinesis | ||
| SEV Manager | Kintaba | Blameless, FireHydrant, Grafana Incident, Pager Duty, Incident | |
| SeRF | Netbox, Tinkerbell, RacksDB | Physical inventory and IPAM | |
| SI/Site Integrity | Haxl | ||
| Sitevar | Consul.io, Etcd | ||
| SRT (Single Review Tool) | LabelBox | ||
| TAO | Neptune, RedisGraph, dgraph, Neo4j | ||
| Tasks | Linear , Asana , Maniphest (inside Phorge) | ||
| TBGS | Sourcegraph, LiveGrep, SilverSearcher, ripgrep | ||
| TracerT | TracerT | ||
| Tupperware | Docker, Podman, Kubernetes | Nomad | |
| Thrift | GRPC, Thrift, ZeroMQ | ||
| Unicorn | Rockset | ||
| Unidash | Grafana, Metabase | Looker, Tableau | |
| Working Set (VSCode Extention) | Fildir, Working Sets | VSCode extensions to help you focus on specific files or directories in a monorepo | |
| Workday | Workday, Charlie HR, Hibob | ||
| Workplace | HumHub, Basecamp, Whaller | ||
| ZippyDB | Badger (Dgraph) | CockroachDB Consul (Hashicorp), Etcd | Key-Value stores based on Raft which scale horizontally. Cockroach is sharded. Consul provides service discovery. |
| CWS, Async workflow | Temporal, Argo Workflows | AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Google Cloud Workflows | Frameworks for implementing complex, asynchronous workflows through coordinating steps with dependencies and error handling |