Meta Tech Podcast
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Meta Tech Podcast
Brought to you by Meta. In addition to remaining active in the open source community and conference circuit, this podcast offers another channel that allows us to highlight the technical work of our engineers who will discuss everything from low-level frameworks to end-user features. Throughout the...
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79: Building Android apps in Meta’s monorepository with Buck2
How do you keep Android build times under control when your codebase spans tens of thousands of modules and millions of lines of Kotlin? In this episo...

78: Generating 3D Worlds with AI
Creating 3D assets can be daunting, but does it have to be? Mahima and Rakesh are on a quest to democratize 3D content creation with AssetGen, a found...

ARCHIVE: What it's like to write code at Meta
To not leave you without an episode for August, Pascal brings you an episode from the Archive. Back in August 2023 for Episode 55, Pascal spoke with K...
77: How to build a generic neuromotor interface
Join Pascal as he explores the groundbreaking world of generic neuromotor interfaces with Jesse, Lauren, and Sean. Discover how these technologies ena...
76: From C to Rust on Mobile
What happens when decades-old C code, powering billions of daily messages, starts to slow down innovation? In this episode, we talk to Meta engineers...
75: Open-sourcing Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust
Pyrefly is a faster, open-source Python type checker written in Rust, succeeding Pyre. But what prompted the rewrite and what besides the language cho...
74: Taking the plunge - The engineering journey of building a Subsea Cable
To ensure that everyone has access to resilient, high-speed and low-latency connections to Meta services, no matter where in the world they are, Meta...
73: Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025
Join Pascal and Sabrina on the latest Meta Tech Podcast episode as they discuss the evolution and future of GraphQL. From client-side consistency to i...
72: Multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses
In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, host Pascal sits down with Shane, a research scientist at Meta, to explore the cutting-edge research behind...
71: Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale
How do you translate roughly ten million lines of Java code to Kotlin? Clicking in your the IDE gets pretty repetitive after a while and doesn’t work...
70: Jetpack Compose at Meta
Introducing a new Android UI Framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is easy right? Import some AARs and code away. But what if your app h...
69: To type or not to type — measuring productivity impact with DAT
Do types actually make you more productive or is it just more typing for you to do on the keyboard? That's just one of the questions we managed to ans...
68: How to Build a Mixed Reality Headset
How do you build your own mixed reality headset from sketch to scale? That's exactly what Alfred Jones, VP of hardware engineering at Meta Reality Lab...
67: Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time
At Meta, engineers are our biggest asset which is why we have an entire org tasked with making them as productive as possible. But how do you know if...
66: Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
Bento is Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Host Pascal is joined by Steve who worked wit...
65: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography
We don’t know when but at some point in the future we will face what researchers call a "Quantum Apocalypse". This is when quantum computers will be a...
64: Caddy - Building the next generation of CAD software for Mixed Reality
After sitting in one too many Zoom meetings looking at flat images of 3D models, mechanical engineers Ed, Jason, Fan, and Raghavan decided that they c...
63: The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship
Aida was part of one of the first Rust teams here at Meta. One of the biggest challenges was interacting with the large amount of existing C++. With t...
62: Building Threads for Web
The basic version of Threads for web was built in just under three months by two engineers, mirroring the nimble engineering practices we talked about...
61: Image Quality Improvements at Scale
Every day, trillions of image download requests are made from Meta’s family of apps. Zuzanna works on the Media Platform Team that owns the entire flo...
60: Simplified Executable Deployment with DotSlash
Distributing binaries and toolchains to developers is a pain but DotSlash makes it a breeze. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executable...
59: Meta ❤️ Python 3.12
For the second time in just a few months, we are talking Python on the Meta Tech Podcast. Python 3.12 features a whole range of new features, many of...
58: Advancing GenAI at Meta
For this last episode of 2024, Pascal talks with Devi, an AI research director at Meta. They talk about the history of AI at Meta, some of the basic t...
ARCHIVE: From Facebook Home to Instagram Stories
We’re jumping into our time machine and going back to 2018 for an interview with Will B. about the various twists and turns that led to the creation o...
57: Writing and linting Python at scale
Python at Meta is huge. Not only does it famously power Instagram's backend, but it underpins our configuration systems, much of our AI work and many...
56: How Threads was built in 5 months
Threads went from idea to 100M users in just about five months. This would not have been possible without building on top of Meta's existing systems a...
55: What it's like to ship code at Meta
For episode 55, Pascal speaks with Katherine and returning guest Dustin, two software engineers at Meta about how to ship code at Meta. Why do we have...
54: Building Key Transparency at WhatsApp
In April, WhatsApp announced the launch of a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency...
53: Offensive security at Meta’s Red Team X
Red Team X is a security team at Meta that is responsible for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party products that could impact Meta's...
52: The success story behind PyTorch
PyTorch is now one of the most popular machine learning frameworks out there but that was not a foregone conclusion when it was released in 2016. Our...
51: Buck2 - a large-scale build system
For episode 51, Pascal speaks with Neil and Marie, two of the engineers behind Buck2, our open source, large scale build system. Thousands of develope...
50: De-identified authentication at scale
If you hear privacy and your first thought is laborious processes and access management, this interview may be just as mind-expanding for you as it wa...
49: Kotlin DevX at Instagram
Lisa works on the Dev Craft team at Instagram that embarked on a journey to bring Kotlin to the Instagram for Android code base a little over three ye...
48: A 94% reduction for basic video compute time on Instagram
Ryan and his team found a quick way of reducing the compute resources spent on encoding videos for Instagram by 94%, but that was actually the easy pa...
47: Sapling - A scalable, user-friendly source control system
Confused by the syntax of git’s rebase command? Overwhelmed with branch management? Check out Meta’s new git-compatible source control management syst...
46: Cross-Platform Video Calling with RSYS
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: The time to talk about calling libraries that power most of our audio and video calls across Meta’s app. Ali...
45: Syncing GitHub to Monorepo with Jon
Back from a short hiatus, Pascal is joined by Jon to talk about the infrastructure that allows commit to sync between Meta's monorepo and GitHub. Whil...
BONUS: Comparing Company Cultures with Jay
Ever wondered how the culture of big companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon differ? Jay comes with a fairly unique perspective as he has now worked...
44: Building a Cross-App Messaging Platform
msys is the technology that underpins most of the messaging products Meta offers. What started as a small library in C wrapping sqlite is now used by...
43: Building for the metaverse with Cami
Cami returns to the Meta Tech Podcast, with now having 18 months of AR/VR experience under her belt. Cami is excited to share what developers can now...