Ask-Me-Anything: An AMA with Meta DevInfra

Speaker: Kelly Hirano, Nachi Nagappan, Rui Abreu, Akshay Patel, Alexander Mols (Meta)
When: October 02, 2025, 10:45 - 12:30
Where: EWI, Lecture Hall Boole

In this guest lecture of CS4505 (Software Architecture), five visitors from the DevInfra team at Meta will engage with the audience in the form of an Ask me Anything (AMA) session.

Participants can prepare for this meeting by studying available online material on state of the art development practices at Meta. Suggested reading includes:

1. Will Shackleton, Katriel Cohn-Gordon, Peter C. Rigby, Rui Abreu, James Gill, Nachiappan Nagappan, Karim Nakad, Ioannis Papagiannis, Luke Petre, Giorgi Megreli, Patrick Riggs, and James Saindon. 2023. Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1705–1715. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611643.3613871

2. Audris Mockus, Peter C Rigby, Rui Abreu, Anatoly Akkerman, Yogesh Bhootada, Payal Bhuptani, Gurnit Ghardhora, Lan Hoang Dao, Chris Hawley, Renzhi He, Sagar Krishnamoorthy, Sergei Krauze, Jianmin Li, Anton Lunov, Dragos Martac, Francois Morin, Neil Mitchell, Venus Montes, Maher Saba, Matt Steiner, Andrea Valori, Shanchao Wang, Nachiappan Nagappan. Code Improvement Practices at Meta. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12517

3. Vijayaraghavan Murali, Chandra Maddila, Imad Ahmad, Michael Bolin, Daniel Cheng, Negar Ghorbani, Renuka Fernandez, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Peter C. Rigby. 2024. AI-Assisted Code Authoring at Scale: Fine-Tuning, Deploying, and Mixed Methods Evaluation. Proc. ACM Softw. Eng. 1, FSE, Article 48 (July 2024), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643774

4. C. Maddila et al., AI-Assisted SQL Authoring at Industry Scale, 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 148-158, https://10.1109/ICSE-SEIP66354.2025.00019.

5. Alshahwan, N. et al. (2018). Deploying Search Based Software Engineering with Sapienz at Facebook. In: Colanzi, T., McMinn, P. (eds) Search-Based Software Engineering. SSBSE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11036. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99241-9_1

6. Chandra Maddila, Adam Tait, Claire Chang, Daniel Cheng, Nauman Ahmad, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Marshall Roch, Arnaud Avondet, Aaron Meltzer, Victor Montalvao, Michael Hopko, Chris Waterson, Parth Thakkar, Renuka Fernandez, Kristian Kristensen, Sivan Barzily, Sherry Chen, Rui Abreu, Nachiappan Nagappan, Payam Shodjai, Killian Murphy, James Everingham, Aparna Ramani, Peter C. Rigby. Agentic Program Repair from Test Failures at Scale: A Neuro-symbolic approach with static analysis and test execution feedback. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18755

7. R. Abreu et al., Moving Faster and Reducing Risk: Using LLMs in Release Deployment, 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2025, pp. 448-457, https://10.1109/ICSE-SEIP66354.2025.00045.