Published inInstagram 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…Sep 24, 201934Sep 24, 201934
Published inInstagram 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…Aug 23, 201911Aug 23, 201911
Published inInstagram Engineering👋 San Francisco!Today we’re excited to announce that Instagram is opening our third full-stack office in San Francisco.May 17, 201810May 17, 201810
Published inInstagram 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…Apr 23, 201812Apr 23, 201812
Published inInstagram 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…Apr 12, 20189Apr 12, 20189
Published inInstagram 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…Mar 5, 201817Mar 5, 201817
Published inInstagram 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…Dec 20, 20179Dec 20, 20179
Published inInstagram 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…Dec 14, 20179Dec 14, 20179
Published inInstagram 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…Nov 17, 201711Nov 17, 201711
Published inInstagram 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…Nov 3, 20173Nov 3, 20173
