Meta Tech Podcast19 Feb 2019

10: FBLite and Fast Android Apps for Emerging Markets with Tal

For the 10th episode of Inside Facebook Mobile, you can listen to Tal, a Technical Program Manager based in the Tel Aviv Facebook office, who joins Pascal and Mihaela to talk about Facebook Lite. Tal discusses the challenges of building, maintaining and releasing an app that has tight constraints of memory, network and disk usage in sight. You'll learn about what Facebook Lite is, why it's important to make it easy for everyone to be able to access it from their phones and you'll hear interesting insight about how phone constraints change how someone accesses internet services. For feedback, please reach out on Twitter at @insidefbmobile, Instagram at @insidefbmobile or drop us an email at mobilepodcasts@fb.com.

Topic Discussed

Spectrum: https://code.fb.com/android/spectrum/
Docusaurus: https://docusaurus.io/
Top Developer Tools: https://stackshare.io/posts/top-developer-tools-2018
PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/

Time Stamps

Intro 00:00:00
Open Source News 00:00:21
Tal Intro 00:02:13
Tal's Background 00:03:11
What's a TPM? 00:03:22
What's FBLite? 00:05:46
Why does FBLite matter? 00:07:07
FBLite rendering infrastructure 00:07:50
Challenges besides size 00:09:11
Release cadence 00:11:00
Libraries used in FBLite 00:11:33
Developer relations within FB 00:12:29
International work hours 00:16:36
Feature parity 00:18:47
Usage patterns in emerging markets 00:21:34
Release trains 00:25:00
Flipper plugins 00:27:01
Tel Aviv FB Office 00:27:34
Outro 00:29:44
Bloopers 00:33:54

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