Podcast Episodes

Simplified Executable Deployment with DotSlash

Episode 60

Distributing binaries and toolchains to developers is a pain but DotSlash makes it a breeze. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executables to your repository, DotSlash combines a fast Ru…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Meta ❤️ Python 3.12

Episode 59

For the second time in just a few months, we are talking Python on the Meta Tech Podcast. Python 3.12 features a whole range of new features, many of which were contributed by Meta. Carl and Itamar j…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Advancing GenAI at Meta

Episode 58

For this last episode of 2024, Pascal talks with Devi, an AI research director at Meta. They talk about the history of AI at Meta, some of the basic terms, how Meta's approach to developing and using…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

ARCHIVE: From Facebook Home to Instagram Stories

We’re jumping into our time machine and going back to 2018 for an interview with Will B. about the various twists and turns that led to the creation of Instagram Stories. We will be back with a fresh…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Writing and linting Python at scale

Episode 57

Python at Meta is huge. Not only does it famously power Instagram's backend, but it underpins our configuration systems, much of our AI work and many services. Amethyst joins Pascal for this episode …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

How Threads was built in 5 months

Episode 56

Threads went from idea to 100M users in just about five months. This would not have been possible without building on top of Meta's existing systems and infrastructure. Join Pascal as he speaks with …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

What it's like to ship code at Meta

Episode 55

For episode 55, Pascal speaks with Katherine and returning guest Dustin, two software engineers at Meta about how to ship code at Meta. Why do we have a monorepo? Why and how do we do pre-commit code…

Published on 2 years ago

Building Key Transparency at WhatsApp

Episode 54

In April, WhatsApp announced the launch of a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. Key transparency helps strengthen the guarantee…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Offensive security at Meta’s Red Team X

Episode 53

Red Team X is a security team at Meta that is responsible for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in third-party products that could impact Meta's own security. The team acts as a hybrid between a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

The success story behind PyTorch

Episode 52

PyTorch is now one of the most popular machine learning frameworks out there but that was not a foregone conclusion when it was released in 2016. Our host Pascal is joined by Suraj, a developer advoc…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago