Engineering

The Instagram Engineering Blog has a new location

In order to streamline our internal blog operations, all future Instagram Engineering content will be posted on the Engineering at Meta blog located here.

Implementing Dark Mode in iOS 13

How we implemented dark mode at Instagram

Adaptive process and memory management for Python web servers

Improving Instagram’s Music Audio Quality

Instagram plays a critical part in forming meaningful communities where people can…

Video Upload Latency Improvements at Instagram

In June 2013 Instagram introduced video uploads. At the time the system was…

Core Modeling at Instagram

At Instagram we have many Machine Learning teams. While they all work on different parts of the product, they…

A year of Stories: Launching is the easy part

One year ago today we launched Instagram Stories to the world. We knew we were making a major change to a product that hundreds of millions of people around the world love and use daily. The weight of this responsibility — plus the opportunity to…

Setting up Instagram’s New York Team

2016 was a huge year for Instagram — between launching Stories, our new look & icon, and big changes to Explore and Direct — we shipped more products, more quickly, and with more engineers than we ever have before. Another big change — though not quite as visible…