SFGate - At this week's Facebook F8 developer conference alone, the social network released free tools to help mobile developers build better interfaces, and for Android developers to understand how their apps are being used, and for making apps crash less when they run out of memory. In the past, Facebook has given out technologies it invented like Cassandra, used by Apple, Netflix, and many more tech companies to manage their tremendous and growing amounts of data. [...] by giving non-critical technology to whoever wants it, Facebook makes its own apps and tools work better ? and ensures that there's a broader base out there of future employees who know exactly how to work with the company's technology. Just don't expect Facebook to give away anything really valuable ? like the technology it uses to figure out which advertisements to place in your news feed. Facebook's ambitious plan to crush YouTube has one major caveatFacebook explains why it needs Insta
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