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F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale

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Meta describes F3 Lightning, an infrastructure layer on its Facebook Feature Framework that serves ads ranking features, which can exceed 20,000 per request. It decouples feature releases from a single shared merged graph, so each feature is compiled, validated, and rolled back independently.

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