88: No Way Out - Engineering Message History Only You Can Read
How do you add end-to-end encryption to a messenger that people have already been using for years, without taking away the message history they expect to be there? Emma Connor works on the team behind...
15 Okt 37min
BONUS: Send Us Your Questions About Engineering at Meta
Pascal is going on Recharge for August so there will be no regular interview episode. However, we want to hear your questions for our mailbag episode. Send them to us on Instagram (https://www.instagr...
29 Juli 1min
87: Everything is Power: Battery Life Engineering for AI Glasses
What changes for you as a developer when the device moves from your pocket to your face? The battery shrinks by an order of magnitude, the thermal budget is whatever won't make your nose uncomfortable...
13 Juli 41min
86: A Hard Cell: Engineering Ultra-Narrow Batteries for AI Glasses
Your smart glasses run all day on a battery narrower than your pinky finger and building it required reinventing how batteries are made. In this episode, Pascal talks to Karthik and Myuran, the engine...
9 Juni 42min
85: Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions
You've probably spotted those little circles of your friends' faces popping up on Facebook Reels. They look simple enough, but building them was a proper engineering challenge. In this episode, Pascal...
8 Maj 38min
84: Trust But Canary: Configuration Safety at Scale
Have you ever wondered how Meta makes config rollouts safe at scale? In this episode, Pascal sits down with Ishwari and Joe to discuss Meta's approach for propagating changes across services in second...
2 Apr 37min
83: Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps
At Meta, even seemingly simple engineering tasks—like updating an API—become monumental undertakings when you're dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the ch...
27 Feb 47min
82: CSS at Scale with StyleX
It's not just Not Invented Here Syndrome. Some technologies like CSS simply don't scale if you're building some of the largest websites on the planet with thousands of engineers committing to the same...
8 Jan 44min
