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Chris Ellsworth, Cosmin Stejerean, and Hassene Tmar from Meta reveal how Instagram became the first Meta app to support Dolby Vision. The catch? Their initial A/B test showed people watched LESS video with the ...
Instagram just migrated to Jetpack Compose. But when you're operating at Meta scale, you can't just import some AARs and start coding.
Instagram DMs handle millions of messages per second. How do they make every send feel instant, even when your network drops mid-tap?
Instagram cut their Android app startup time in half and reduced APK size by 50%. Here's how they did it.
Instagram's Android team faced a brutal problem: complex captions with emojis and links were causing 50ms UI thread blocks, making scrolling feel janky even on flagship devices.
Instagram's Android app had a JSON parsing problem that was killing their News feed performance. Traditional solutions weren't cutting it.
Instagram built a full-screen video viewer that needed to feel buttery smooth on every Android device. Here's how they made animations delightful without killing performance.
Instagram engineers were losing hours every day waiting for code to compile. So they brought React Native's ⌘R instant refresh experience to native iOS.
Instagram's disk cache was causing more crashes than any other component in their Android app. The culprit? A well-intentioned open source library that made error handling a developer nightmare.
Instagram's app was getting bloated. More engineers, more features, slower cold starts, and ballooning app size threatened the lean experience users loved.
Instagram serves 800 million monthly users, 80% outside the US. How do you make the app feel instant for everyone, regardless of network quality?
Instagram stayed single-dex on Android while integrating React Native. Martin Bigio and the Core Client team reveal how they pulled it off without bloating their app.
Instagram's Android launch brought 1 million new users in 12 hours. Here's how their infrastructure team kept the lights on during hypergrowth.