Top stories published by Instagram Engineering in 2015

With last week’s Search and Explore launch, we introduced the ability to easily find interesting moments on Instagram as they happen in the world. The trending hashtags and places you see in Explore surface some of the best, most popular content from across the community, and pull from…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Jul 15, 2015

Search Architecture

Instagram is in the fortunate position to be a small company within the infrastructure of a much larger one. When it makes sense, we leverage resources to leapfrog into experiences that have taken Facebook ten years to build. Facebook’s search infrastructure, Unicorn, is a social-graph-aware…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Apr 30, 2015

Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends

🆒🆕In October 2011, Apple added the emoji keyboard to iOS as an international keyboard. Since then, digital language has evolved such that nearly half of comments and captions on Instagram contain emoji characters. And earlier this…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Jun 19, 2015

C++ Futures at Instagram

Over the past few months, we’ve built two high-performing recommendation services that handle tens of thousands of queries per second and generate tens of millions connections per day. In this blog post, we want to share our experience of scaling these two services using Futures and…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Mar 25, 2015

Improving Comment Rendering on Android

Last weekend, thousands of Instagrammers from all over the world got together forWorldwide InstaMeet 11, one of Instagram’s community-organized, real-world meetups.#WWIM11 was our largest and most geographically diverse InstaMeet ever — thousands of…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Dec 29, 2015

Under the Hood: Instagram in 2015

2015 was a big year for Instagram — between reimagining the discovery experience with Search and Explore and trending content, launching new stand-alone creative apps, rebuilding Direct, and scaling our infrastructure across data centers, a lot was happening under the…

Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Jul 29, 2015

Scaling the Datagram Team

If you’ve been following our recent product launches and posts, you may be curious about how our data infrastructure team functions and how it has grown to support the new products and experiences on Instagram. We operate a very lean team — only 20 engineers supporting Search…

Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

Jan 24, 2015

Fast, auto-generated streaming JSON parsing for Android

The Instagram engineering team is constantly looking at how we can improve the speed, reliability and overall performance of the app. One of the things we wanted to improve is how quickly people using the Android app can view “News”…

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Instagram Engineering in Instagram Engineering

May 5, 2015

Emojineering Part II: Implementing Hashtag Emoji

Today’s post is a continuation of Part 1 on emoji semantics.

🙀🔝Last week, Instagram began supporting emoji characters inside of hashtags. On Friday we talked about the rise in emoji usage on Instagram and how to…

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