Facebook announces new tech at @Scale 2016

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Introduced Zstandard, a new compression algorithm that offers smaller and faster compression, twice the decompression speed, and higher compression ratios, leading to faster data transfer and smaller storage requirements. Announced MyRocks, an open-source MySQL storage engine built on RocksDB, which reduces storage requirements by 50% in production user database tiers. Developed a 360 video stabilization technology using a combination of 2D and 3D stabilization methods with a new 'deformed rotation' motion model, improving video quality, reducing bit rate, and enabling fast upload and playback. Presented BrowserLab, an automated testing environment for detecting regressions as small as 20ms, handling dynamic content, isolating server variance, and accounting for non-deterministic code. Discussed Infer, an open-source static analyzer for Java, C, and Objective-C, with ongoing efforts to add support for C++.