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At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In [...] Read More... The post React at Meta Connect 2024 appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.  We are working to make RTC accessible by providing a high-quality experience for everyone – even those who might not have the fastest connections or the latest phones. As more and more people have relied on [...] Read More... The post MLow: Meta’s low bitrate audio codec 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.

Introduction At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at odds [...] The post Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

In about five short months, a small team of engineers at Meta took Threads, the new text-based conversations app, from from an idea to the most successful app launch of all time, pulling in over 100M users in its first five days. But this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without Meta’s existing systems and infrastructure. [...] Read More... The post How Meta built Threads in 5 months appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak,  two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have [...] Read More... The post What’s it like to write code at Meta? appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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We’re sharing our latest threat research and technical analysis into persistent malware campaigns targeting businesses across the internet, including threat indicators to help raise our industry’s collective defenses across the internet. These malware families – including Ducktail, NodeStealer and newer malware posing as ChatGPT and other similar tools– targeted people through malicious browser extensions, ads, [...] Read More... The post The malware threat landscape: NodeStealer, DuckTail, and more appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

We’re sharing how Meta delivers high-quality audio at scale with the xHE-AAC audio codec. xHE-AAC has already been deployed on Facebook and Instagram to provide enhanced audio for features like Reels and Stories.  At Meta, we serve every media use case imaginable for billions of people across the world — from short-form, user-generated content, such [...] Read More... The post Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.