Mobile, Video and Web
11/29/2023
Virtual Video Files at Scale: Seamlessly Processing Billions of Videos Per Day
Introduction At Meta, we handle billions of video uploads per day across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and Oculus. These videos can range from short clips, such as Stories and Reels, to multi-hour live broadcasts or high-resolution 360 content for Oculus headsets. To more seamlessly process this wide range of content, we have built several technologies […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
11/29/2023
AV1: Improving RTC Video Quality at Scale
Introduction Back in 2018, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) standardized the first codec, the AV1 video codec. Since then, development and implementations of that codec have progressed, and recently companies including YouTube, Netflix, and Meta have deployed it at large scale for video streaming. At Meta, we believe that now is the time to […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/30/2023
REACT NATIVE PANEL WITH LIVE Q&A
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Design Systems @Scale
Curious to learn more about Meta’s work on UI Design Systems? Tune in to learn about the tooling and infrastructure we are building at Meta and go deeper into how we are utilizing common building blocks which are shared across multiple design systems and apps in order to scale!
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Mobile Experimentation at Instacart
Experimentation is key to shipping products today. On mobile devices, connectivity, latency, and coordination can make it challenging to keep a smooth and consistent user experience. In this talk you’ll learn how Instacart built a mobile A/B system that scales to millions of devices, the challenges faced, and how a sprinkling of computer science fundamentals […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Making Threads for Android
How we built Threads for Android in 5 months and reached 50 million people, while adopting Jetpack Compose for the first time for an entire app, and some learnings along the way.
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Making Threads for iOS
Meta’s Threads app launch shattered records, exceeding even CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s expectations. With an unprecedented influx of users—achieving one million within an hour and surpassing 100 million in less than 5 days—the scale of this achievement raises questions. How does one orchestrate such a colossal launch? What does the timeline look like? What hurdles emerge, […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Kotlin @ Instagram
Learn about the history of Kotlin adoption at Instagram: from shipping Buck support in 2019 to introducing the new Kotlin compiler from Jetbrains in 2023. Instagram has shifted an incredibly large codebase from Java to mostly Kotlin (Instagram surpassed 50% lines of code in Kotlin in early 2023). This presentation will cover some of the […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Improving Instagram iOs Build Speeds
To develop effectively, mobile product engineers must be able to quickly see the results of their code changes. By late 2020, after years of codebase and complexity growth in Instagram’s iOS app, our build times had slowly regressed to the point where engineers needed to wait multiple minutes for each build. Over the past two […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Messaging @Scale
Join us as we explore the captivating journey involved in crafting a dynamic mobile messaging platform. Delving into the realm of platform design models, we will discuss their strengths and limitations. Gain insight into how Meta’s mobile Messaging System, Msys, was shaped by these considerations and how Msys scales to new clients as well as […]
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Mobile, Video and Web
10/27/2023
Keynote: Generative AI in Mobile Applications
Generative AI is poised to be one of the most profound transformations in technology with a tremendous impact on society. In this talk we will provide a background on generative AI and discuss the intersection between generative AI technologies and mobile application development.
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