Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringInterview with Tamar Shapiro, Instagram’s Head of AnalyticsTamar is the Head of Analytics at Instagram. She supports a team of data scientists and data engineers responsible for analytics, data…7 min read·Sep 24, 2019--34--34
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringFrom FBU to SWE — My Journey of Proving Myself to Myself and How Instagram Helped Me Do ItWritten by Amy Huyen, Facebook University (“FBU”) summer 2019 intern at Instagram. On my first day of intern orientation last summer, I…8 min read·Aug 23, 2019--11--11
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram Engineering👋 San Francisco!Today we’re excited to announce that Instagram is opening our third full-stack office in San Francisco.3 min read·May 17, 2018--10--10
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringInstant Feedback in iOS Engineering WorkflowsAt Instagram and Facebook, we’ve seen how adopting React Native in product development has allowed our engineers to move and iterate faster…4 min read·Apr 23, 2018--12--12
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringBuilding Type Mode for Stories on iOS and AndroidInstagram recently launched Type Mode, a new way to post creative, dynamic text styles and backgrounds to Stories. Type Mode was an…8 min read·Apr 12, 2018--9--9
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringOpen-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latencyAt Instagram, we have one of the world’s largest deployments of the Apache Cassandra database. We began using Cassandra in 2012 to replace…6 min read·Mar 5, 2018--17--17
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringCopy-on-write friendly Python garbage collectionAt Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using…4 min read·Dec 20, 2017--9--9
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringLet your code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyTypeToday we are excited to announce we’re open-sourcing MonkeyType, our tool for automatically adding type annotations to your Python 3 code…4 min read·Dec 14, 2017--9--9
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringProfiling CPython at InstagramInstagram employs Python in one of the world’s largest settings, using it to implement the “business logic” needed to serve 800 million…6 min read·Nov 17, 2017--11--11
Instagram EngineeringinInstagram EngineeringApp modularization and module lazy loading at Instagram and beyondInstagram prides itself on having a lean app. But as the number of engineers and features grows, so do the challenges to size. We start to…5 min read·Nov 3, 2017--3--3
