Meta Tech Podcast

Lillian joins Mihaela and Pascal in this episode to talk about Facebook Stories and how it took shape from a new sharing surface developed by three engineers to the mature product it is today. You'll learn about the challenges her team faced while trying to scale Stories from a prototype and the performance implications of introducing new types of content as well as functionality at the top of News Feed. If you've listened to our previous episode featuring Balazs, who's been an engineering manager for some time, you can now hear about this role from the perspective of someone who's just recently become an engineering manager and is now going through the transition from an Android engineer to a manager. For feedback, please reach out on Twitter at @insidefbmobile or drop us an email at mobilepodcasts@fb.com. Projects discussed: - React Native: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ - Log Device: https://logdevice.io/ - Skip: http://skiplang.com/ - Litho: https://fblitho.com/

This episode features Balazs, a manager on the Image Infra team, who joins Mihaela and Pascal to shed some light on what it's like to be an engineering manager at Facebook. Balazs talks about some of the projects he's worked on as an Android engineer after he joined Facebook and shares how and why he transitioned to management, starting this new role in the Fresco team. Balazs is now managing a team that is focused on performance and he shares some insights on the unique challenges his team is solving and how he fits in that as an engineering manager. As usual, the episode starts off with a quick discussion on the latest Facebook Open-Source news and upcoming Android talks. For feedback, please reach out on Twitter at @insidefbmobile or drop us an email at mobilepodcasts@fb.com. Projects discussed: - Fizz: https://code.fb.com/networking-traffic/deploying-tls-1-3-at-scale-with-fizz-a-performant-open-source-tls-library/ - XAR: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/xars-a-more-efficient-open-source-system-for-self-contained-executables/ - Fresco: http://frescolib.org/ - Profilio: https://code.fb.com/android/profilo-understanding-app-performance-in-the-wild/ - Redex: https://github.com/facebook/redex Talks: - Droidcon: http://uk.droidcon.com/ - Londroid: https://www.meetup.com/android/

In this episode Mihaela joins Pascal for the intro to discuss the latest news in Facebook open source including Litho and Flipper. We then move on to the interview in which Pascal chats with Alisa and Stef who work on AR Studio and AR Engine, two products that allow creatives to build effects for various Facebook apps. Tune in to hear how Alisa and Stef ended up in their current roles, how a feature makes it from inception into a product at Facebook, and how the community feedback is taken into account.   For feedback, please reach out on Twitter at @insidefbmobile or drop us an email at mobilepodcasts@fb.com.

Julia works as a technical program manager in release engineering. This means that she makes sure that all of Facebook's Android apps are released on time, which means once a week for most of them, while making sure that every version improves over the previous one in stability and features. Tune in to learn how this works when dealing with billions of users on thousands of different devices. For feedback, please reach out on Twitter at @insidefbmobile or drop us an email at mobilepodcasts@fb.com.

We just released Sonar, an extensible mobile app debugger. In this Episode Pascal interviews Emil who started the project 18 months ago about what inspired him to build it and how Sonar is used across Facebook today.

This month Emil and Pascal talked to Will Bailey. Will has a long history at Facebook building tactile experiences and open source libraries. Now Will works at Instagram. Apart from hearing about Will's history at Facebook, we focused on the intersection of design and software engineering, something all of us are very passionate about.

In this episode we interview Mihaela who works on the Native UI Frameworks team. We talk about Litho and Sections and how open source at Facebook works. Projects discussed: Litho and Sections: https://fblitho.com/ Infer static analyzer: http://fbinfer.com/ Redex: http://fbredex.com/ Multithreaded rendering on Android with Litho and Infer: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1985913448333055/multithreaded-rendering-on-android-with-litho-and-infer/ Please send feedback to mobilepodcasts@fb.com or reach out to Pascal and Emil directly.  

Emil and Pascal introduce themselves and tell you about what they've planned for their new podcast. Please send feedback to mobilepodcasts@fb.com or reach out to Pascal and Emil directly.