People are creating, sharing, and storing data at a faster rate than at any other time in history. When it comes to innovating on storing and transmitting that data, at Facebook we're making advancements not only in hardware — such as larger hard drives and faster networking equipment — but in software as well. Software helps with data processing through compression, which encodes information, lik
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