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How We’re Making Roblox’s Infrastructure More Efficient and Resilient
As Roblox has grown over the past 16+ years, so has the scale and complexity of the technical infrastructure that supports millions of immersive 3D co-experiences. The number of machines we support has more than tripled over the past two years, from ...
| December 07, 2023 -
How Roblox Reduces Spark Join Query Costs With Machine Learning Optimized Bloom Filters
Abstract Every day on Roblox, 70 million users engage with millions of experiences, totaling 16 billion hours quarterly. This interaction generates a petabyte-scale data lake, which is enriched for analytics and machine learning (ML) purposes. It’s...
| November 28, 2023 -
Insights From Our Latest Digital Expression, Fashion & Beauty Trends Report
Watch our virtual expert panel “What’s Next in Digital Self-Expression?” for a deep dive into this year’s trends. Self-expression is a vital part of many people’s experiences in immersive 3D spaces—especially Gen Z, who are growing up bui...
| November 09, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Multilingual & Semantic Search
Inside the Tech is a blog series that accompanies our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 19 of the podcast, International, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Product Senior Director Zhen Fang about Roblox’s International strategy, and the technical c...
| November 07, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Automatic Translations on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 19, International, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Zhen Fang, Head of International, about tackling automatic translation and multilingual search. In...
| October 31, 2023 -
Reimagining How People Come Together Through Communication, Connection, and Expression
Imagine being at a packed Chainsmokers concert. Up front, the music is infectious and loud, and it’s hard to hear friends. But farther away from the band, it’s possible to talk with them. Or picture gathering with family members across the globe ...
| October 19, 2023 -
The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox
Today I shared an update with our employees about the future of how we work together at Roblox. *** Dear Roblox Employees, Today we will be asking a number of our remote employees to begin working from our headquarters in San Mateo by next summer and...
| October 17, 2023 -
How Roblox Avatar Tech Is Evolving
We currently support two different tech stacks for avatars: A legacy tech stack (R6) that supports older avatars and experiences; and a newer tech stack (R15) that supports all avatar styles and capabilities. To ensure that any avatar style will work...
| October 17, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Matchmaking on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. Here, we dive further into a key technical challenge we’re tackling and share the unique approaches we’re taking to do so. In this edition of Inside the Tech, we...
| October 11, 2023 -
Accelerating innovation: How eight startup founders are continuing to innovate at Roblox
Every day, teams across Roblox solve complex technical challenges and build innovative solutions that bring our vision and mission to life. To accelerate this work, Roblox continually looks for startups that can bring new domain expertise, skills, an...
| October 03, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Personalization on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. Here, we dive further into key technical challenges we are tackling and share the unique approaches we are taking to do so. In this edition of Inside the Tech, we sp...
| September 26, 2023 -
Revolutionizing Creation on Roblox with Generative AI
Earlier this year, we shared our vision for generative artificial intelligence (AI) on Roblox and the intuitive new tools that will enable every user to become a creator. As these tools evolve rapidly across the industry, I wanted to provide some upd...
| September 11, 2023 -
RDC 2023: Where Roblox is going next
Our ninth annual Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) kicked off today at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Every year, this event brings the most innovative creators from across our global community together to connect with one another and learn...
| September 08, 2023 -
ControlNet and StarCoder: Roblox research advancements for Generative AI
Today, we’re sharing insights and results from two of our generative AI research projects. Both projects are academic and industry collaborations. Both are also focused on radically more powerful tools for our creators–artists and programmers.
| September 05, 2023 -
Where Learning Happens
At Roblox, we’ve long been building a place for people to connect with optimism and civility, and where there’s something for everyone. I’m proud of our growing library of learning experiences on Roblox that epitomize this ambition, offering st...
| August 21, 2023 -
Introducing the Roblox Career Center: A new way to experience recruiting
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Roblox Career Center — an experience directly on Roblox where early career candidates can dive into our immersive platform firsthand and learn what it’s like to be a part of a company that i...
| August 10, 2023 -
Roblox Week 2023: Innovation in Action
We recently held our third Roblox Week at headquarters in San Mateo. This semi-annual event brings our employees together to connect and collaborate as we drive innovation and pursue our shared vision of reimagining how people come together. Inven...
| August 08, 2023