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Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale
Episode 71
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 if you have custom APIs and requirements for null…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Jetpack Compose at Meta
Episode 70
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 has specific performance goals to meet, has existi…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
To type or not to type — measuring productivity impact with DAT
Episode 69
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 answer at least on a small scale with Diff Authoring…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Build a Mixed Reality Headset
Episode 68
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 Labs, discussed with host Pascal. From choosing the …
Published on 1 year ago
Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time
Episode 67
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 your projects for improving developer experience …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
Episode 66
Bento is Meta's internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Host Pascal is joined by Steve who worked with his team on building many features on top of Ju…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Episode 65
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 able to break many of our existing encryption algo…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Caddy - Building the next generation of CAD software for Mixed Reality
Episode 64
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 could do better, taught themselves how to code and…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship
Episode 63
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 the release of cxx, safe interop between C++ and e…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship
Episode 63
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 the release of cxx, safe interop between C++ and e…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago