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)

Technology

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
Caprica	Aerleon, Caprica, Netspoc
Chronos	dKron
Codemod	Codemod
Configerator	Protoconf, Consul, etcd, ZooKeeper	AWS AppConfig, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, Azure App Configuration, Google Secret Manager
Crash Reporting	Firebase Crashlytics, sentry.io
Cubism	Cubism
DataSwarm	Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Luigi, Kedro, Argo Workflows	Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Composer, AWS Step Functions, Databricks Workflows
Daiquery	Jupyter	Databricks
Deltoid	GrowthBook, Wasabi, PlanOut	Statsig, Google Optimize, Optimizely, VWO, Adobe Target, Dynamic Yield
Dotsync	Dotsync		No native support for automatically saving/loading config changes
Eden / HG	Sapling
FBLearner Flow	TFX, Metaflow, Flyte, Prefect, Dagster, Luigi, Kedro, Argo Workflows	Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, Union Cloud, Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Composer, AWS Step Functions, Databricks Workflows
FBNet	NSOT
FBNet fcr	FCR
FBpush	FBpush
FBTrace	Jaeger, Zipkin, LightStep, OpenTelemetry, SkyWalking, Pinpoint	AWS X-Ray, Google Cloud Trace, Azure Application Insights
FBurl	Shlink, YOURLS		Self hosted URL shortener
FOQS	Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, NATS, Apache ActiveMQ, Redis Streams	Google PubSub, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, AWS EventBridge, Confluent Cloud	Similar to Iris, but more general. Used to support FB's Async Tier
Entities	ent
Excalidraw	Excalidraw, Draw.io (diagrams.net), yEd, Dia, PlantUML	Miro, FigJam, Lucidchart, Visio Online, Creately
Gatekeeper, JustKnobs	GrowthBook, Flag Smith, Unleash, OpenFeature, FeatBit, ConfigCat Community	LaunchDarkly, Google Optimize, Flag Smith, Statsig, Split, Optimizely, Adobe Target, VWO
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, Apache Spark, Trino, Apache Drill, DuckDB	BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics
Hipster	Casbin, Keycloak
HWC	RackHD, Foreman, Cobbler, FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)	HPE OneView, Dell EMC OpenManage, Cisco UCS Manager
Hypershell	ClusterSSH
iData	Datahub, Apache Atlas, Amundsen, Metacat, OpenMetadata	select star, Alation, Collibra, Informatica Data Catalog, Azure Purview
Internal FB Groups		Workplace, Threads (exfb)
Internal Messenger		Workplace, Slack, Threads (exfb), Discord, TeamChat
Internal Profiles		Pingboard
Iris	Apache Kafka, NATS, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Pulsar, Redis Streams	Google PubSub, Amazon SNS, Azure Service Bus, AWS EventBridge, Confluent Cloud	Similar to FOQS but heavier emphasis on sending messages
Mattermost	Mattermost, Rocket.chat	Mattermost	MM has an AGPL and commercial version
Mercurial -> Git	git branchless, hg-git		git branchless adds some of the features you know and love from Mercurial to git
NetNorad	NetNorad
ODS	Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, SigNoz, Zabbix, Nagios, InfluxDB	SignalFX, Datadog, Splunk, Wavefront, New Relic, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic Observability
Open/R	Open/R
Pastry	mojopaste, nopaste		Self hosted pastebin. Pastebin cli
pfff	pfff
Phabricator	Phorge, Graphite, Phabricator, Gerrit, GitLab CE, Gitea, Crucible	GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Premium, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps	Phabricator is no longer maintained as of 2021
Presto	Trino, PrestoDB	Starburst
PSC		Lattice
Pulse Surveys		Peakon, Glint
Quip	HedgeDoc, BookStack, DokuWiki, TiddlyWiki, Outline	Quip, Confluence, Notion, Coda, Slab, GitBook
Rageshake	Instabug
Screenshotbot	Screenshotbot.io
Room Tools	OpenMeetings, Jitsi Meet, BigBlueButton	Zoom Rooms, Eventboard, Microsoft Teams Rooms, Cisco Webex Rooms, Google Meet Hardware
Scuba	Superset+Druid, MemSQL, Snorkel, LocustDB, InfluxDB+Grafana, Apache Druid, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, Apache Pinot	Honeycomb, Interana, Looker, Statsig, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery Analytics
Scribe	Apache Pulsar, Kafka, Amazon Kinesis
SEV Manager	Kintaba, Grafana OnCall, ilert Community, Keep, AlertManager	Blameless, FireHydrant, Grafana Incident, Pager Duty, Incident, Splunk On-Call, xMatters, Atlassian Jira Service Management, ServiceNow
SeRF	Netbox, Tinkerbell, RacksDB		Physical inventory and IPAM
SI/Site Integrity	Haxl
Sitevar	Consul, etcd, Vault, Kubernetes ConfigMaps, Helm	AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Secret Manager
SRT (Single Review Tool)		LabelBox
TAO	Neptune (AWS), RedisGraph, dgraph, Neo4j, ArangoDB, NebulaGraph, TigerGraph Community, Galaxybase	Amazon Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, Google Cloud Spanner, Neo4j Aura
Tasks	Linear, Asana, Maniphest (inside Phorge)
TBGS	Sourcegraph, LiveGrep, SilverSearcher, ripgrep, OpenGrok, Hound, ag (Silver Searcher), ugrep	GitHub Code Search, GitLab Advanced Search, Sourcegraph Cloud
TracerT	TracerT
Tupperware	Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, Rancher, OpenShift Origin	Nomad, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, Red Hat OpenShift
Thrift	GRPC, Thrift, ZeroMQ
Unicorn	Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)
Unidash	Grafana, Metabase	Looker, Tableau, Statsig
Visual Studio Code	vscode, vscodium
Working Set (VSCode Extension)	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), RocksDB, LevelDB, Redis, Apache Cassandra	CockroachDB, Consul (Hashicorp), Etcd, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Google Cloud Firestore, MongoDB Atlas	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

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