Instagram – Engineering at Meta

Journey to 1000 models: Scaling Instagram’s recommendation system

about 2 months ago

In this post, we explore how Instagram has successfully scaled its algorithm...

Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android

5 months ago

Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing...

MLow: Meta’s low bitrate audio codec

about 1 year ago

At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through...

Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads

over 1 year ago

Reducing Instagram’s basic video compute time by 94 percent

over 2 years ago

In our constant quest to prioritize efficiency, Instagram’s engineers have developed a...

Improving Instagram notification management with machine learning and causal inference

over 2 years ago

We’re sharing how Meta is applying statistics and machine learning (ML) to...

Improving Meta’s SLO workflows with data annotations

almost 3 years ago

When we focus on minimizing errors and downtime here at Meta, we...

Launching Instagram Messaging on desktop

almost 3 years ago

In 2020 we launched Instagram Messaging (referred to in this post simply...

Building text animations for Instagram Stories

almost 3 years ago

In August 2020, Instagram launched a set of dynamic and fun text...

How the Cinder JIT’s function inliner helps us optimize Instagram

about 3 years ago

Since Instagram runs one of the world’s largest deployments of the Django...

Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps

almost 4 years ago

Managing app size at Facebook is a unique challenge: Every day, developers...

Cutting Threads’ send latency in half

over 4 years ago

In 2019, Instagram launched a new app for direct messaging called Threads...