Videos on Facebook TAO architecture

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I guess you guys already know this, but here are some videos on Facebook’s TAO architecture:

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and

Useful to understand what TAO is.

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Oh… these are amazing! I had only read the paper, didn’t know about these videos. I think any information we can get about TAO is a good one. Also, Facebook’s Dragon query engine.

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Watched the first one, it isn’t very useful. Maybe reading the paper would be more useful.

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Second talk was more detailed and gave more info. However they architecture is not super useful for other environments

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Yeah, TAO is very simplistic in what it does and what features it supports. They use another layer on top of TAO to do the advanced stuff, like filtering and sorting etc., from what I understand. So, TAO is basic retrieval using a basic squery language.