Meta-Tech-Podcast

How do you take a mixed reality (MR) headset from idea to finished product? Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Labs, joins Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast for a discussion on the realities (no pun intended) of building MR hardware. Jones shares his strategy for [...] Read More... The post How to build a mixed reality headset appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Sarita and Moritz, two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a [...] Read More... The post Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig [...] Read More... The post Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet.  Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran [...] Read More... The post Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

What happens when a team of mechanical engineers get tired of looking at flat images of 3D models over Zoom? Meet the team behind Caddy, a new CAD app for mixed reality. They join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about teaching themselves to code, disrupting the CAD software space, how [...] Read More... The post Meet Caddy – Meta’s next-gen mixed reality CAD software appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

The history of Rust at Meta goes all the way back to 2016, when we first started using it for source control. Today, it has been widely embraced at Meta and is one of our primary supported server-side languages (along with C++, Python, and Hack). But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any growing pains. Aida [...] Read More... The post The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

When Threads first launched one of the top feature requests was for a web client. In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Ally C. and Kevin C., two engineers on the Threads Web Team that delivered the basic version of Threads for web in just under three months. [...] Read More... The post Behind the scenes of Threads for web appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Meta’s family of apps serves trillions of image download requests every day. And if you’re into high-quality images, you’ve probably noticed that Instagram and Threads have added support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos. Now people on Threads and Instagram can upload and share images that are more true-to-life, with the full color and range [...] Read More... The post Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads appeared first on Engineering at Meta.