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.

MLow: Meta’s low bitrate audio codec

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.

Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads

Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism. At Meta, we use Python (Django) for our frontend server within Instagram. To handle parallelism, we rely on a multi-process architecture along with [...]
Read More...
The post Introducing Immortal Objects for Python appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Introducing Immortal Objects for Python

Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. We leverage machine learning to make sure people are always seeing content that is the most interesting and relevant to them. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and [...]
Read More...
The post Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system

Fixit is dead! Long live Fixit 2 – the latest version of our open-source auto-fixing linter. Fixit 2 allows developers to efficiently build custom lint rules and perform auto-fixes for their codebases. Fixit 2 is available today on PyPI. Python is one of the most popular languages in use at Meta. Meta’s production engineers (PEs) [...]
Read More...
The post Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Fixit 2: Meta’s next-generation auto-fixing linter

Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved [...]
Read More...
The post Bringing HDR video to Reels appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

CoFeed

Posts about #instagram from the top innovative companies, all in one place.