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Can this be downloaded somewhere?

Couldn't find any link in the open source site: https://opensource.fb.com/ nor the ELI5: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/09/20/eli5-be...

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TBH the value of bento over other notebook offerings was almost entirely how well it plays with the rest of the data and infra stack within facebook. It was super easy to go from raw data (entire DE and DI orgs responsible for ETL and cluster maintenance) to a cleaned up table (usually built by DEs) to an ad hoc table to support a specific use-case that could then be accessed via bento, analyzed, and then published / shared to anyone in the company.

If you use jupyterlite, you're using the same thing. Bento is just the internal Meta version and the only potential benefits is the internal integration.

Probably not. It's written in Hack, and heavily tied to internal frameworks, so it'll be practically impossible to extract into a standalone package, unless they do a "clean room" implementation (like they did for Sapling UI https://sapling-scm.com/docs/addons/isl/).

But it has some cool features that notebook developers can take inspiration from.

I don't believe Bento has been open-sourced.

interesting that they make external articles about it

"Oh that's cool.", "It'd be interesting to work on problems like that.", "That's a neat solution"

If anyone's on the fence about applying, that could be enough to nudge them in the direction. If anyone's worked in similar areas, could be worth applying and looking at the team, etc.

Totally agree, although odd that the post was tagged as "open source."

I think thats because it's based on an open source project

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