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Emil and Pascal introduce themselves and tell you about what they've planned for their new podcast. Please send feedback to mobilepodcasts@fb.com or reach out to Pascal and Emil directly.

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Apr 11, 2018

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Brought to you by Meta. In addition to remaining active in the open source community and conference circuit, this podcast offers another channel that allows us to highlight the technical work of our engineers who will discuss everything from low-level frameworks to end-user features. Throughout the podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) will interview developers in the company.

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7: Performance and Instrumentation with Ariane: In this episode, Ariane joins for an in-depth conversation about performance logging. With more than 10 years focusing on this problem, Ariane moved from Facebook Seattle to Facebook London and started a team with other engineers that are as... by Meta Tech Podcast
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9: Android Bytecode Optimisation with Emma: In this episode, Pascal and Mihaela chat with Emma about Redex, an open-source bytecode optimiser for Android apps. Emma talks about the importance and trade-offs of such optimisations and walks us through the basic steps of how Redex works and the... by Meta Tech Podcast
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3: Release Management with Julia: Julia works as a technical program manager in release engineering. This means that she makes sure that all of Facebook's Android apps are released on time, which means once a week for most of them, while making sure that every version improves over... by Meta Tech Podcast
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2: Facebook Home and Instagram Stories with Will: This month Emil and Pascal talked to Will Bailey. Will has a long history at Facebook building tactile experiences and open source libraries. Now Will works at Instagram. Apart from hearing about Will's history at Facebook, we focused on the... by Meta Tech Podcast
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0: Intro: Emil and Pascal introduce themselves and tell you about what they've planned for their new podcast. Please send feedback to or reach out to and directly. by Meta Tech Podcast
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1: Litho and Sections with Mihaela: In this episode we interview Mihaela who works on the Native UI Frameworks team. We talk about Litho and Sections and how open source at Facebook works. Projects discussed: Litho and Sections: Infer static analyzer: Redex: ... by Meta Tech Podcast
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5: Engineering Management with Balazs: This episode features Balazs, a manager on the Image Infra team, who joins Mihaela and Pascal to shed some light on what it's like to be an engineering manager at Facebook. Balazs talks about some of the projects he's worked on as an Android engineer... by Meta Tech Podcast
53 min listen
16: React Native Developer Advocacy and Documentation Engineering with Rachel: Join us for this episode where Pascal and Fabio interview one of Facebook’s new joiners: is a developer advocate on the React Core team in London. React is one of the biggest open source UI frameworks in the world, a reputation kept sustainable... by Meta Tech Podcast
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8: Android Perf at Instagram with Mona: In this episode, Mihaela and Pascal chat with Mona from Instagram New York. We talk about Mona's journey from working on web in California to scroll performance at Instagram and how performance overall is approached from measuring, tackling... by Meta Tech Podcast
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2.5: Quick take on Sonar with Emil: We just released Sonar, an extensible mobile app debugger. In this Episode Pascal interviews Emil who started the project 18 months ago about what inspired him to build it and how Sonar is used across Facebook today. by Meta Tech Podcast
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6: The Story of Stories with Lillian: Lillian joins Mihaela and Pascal in this episode to talk about Facebook Stories and how it took shape from a new sharing surface developed by three engineers to the mature product it is today. You'll learn about the challenges her team faced while... by Meta Tech Podcast
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11: Secure Networking on Android with Subodh: Subodh, a software engineer leading the QUIC team in Menlo Park, joins us for episode 11 and talks with Mihaela and Pascal about Android networking. If you've never given much attention to the network protocols your app is using, listen to Subodh why... by Meta Tech Podcast
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4: Product Design with Alisa and Stef: In this episode Mihaela joins Pascal for the intro to discuss the latest news in Facebook open source including and . We then move on to the interview in which Pascal chats with Alisa and Stef who work on , two products that allow creatives to build... by Meta Tech Podcast
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24: COVID-19 Hub with Chang, Jarman and Zaven: Inside Facebook Mobile is back for a special interview with the team behind the Facebook COVID-19 Info Centre. Chang, Jarman and Zaven share their experiences of building and shipping a global product like this over the course of just a few weeks. We... by Meta Tech Podcast
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27: Using Data for Better Android Notifications with Garima: Garima joins Rachel () and Pascal () to discuss the challenges of building custom layouts for notifications in a fragmented Android ecosystem. They discuss how sampled data helps to ensure that our billions of daily active people get the best possible... by Meta Tech Podcast
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12: Product Management on Workplace with Chiara: Chiara is a Product Manager who supports the Workplace team. She joins Pascal and Mihaela on episode 12 to give some clarity on the role of a Product Manager. With a background in graphic design, she tells us about her journey to becoming a Product... by Meta Tech Podcast
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19: droidcon London 2019, Part I: Pascal went mobile again and brought the mics to this year’s droidcon Android conference in London. He interviewed the record-breaking six speakers Facebook had this year and discussed some topics with them. This episode kicks off with Sergey, who... by Meta Tech Podcast
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31: Intentional Architecture with Yuan and Dustin: “What’s Facebook’s mobile architecture?” is a question we hear often. Instead of top-down MVC, MVW or MVVM, Facebook delegates the responsibility of choosing the right architectural patterns down to the engineers working on products. This... by Meta Tech Podcast
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15: Infer Static Analysis for Mobile Apps with Ezgi: Episode 15 features a topic that might sound familiar to you if you've listened to previous editions of Inside Facebook Mobile. It's a project that provides such value to developers that it keeps coming up in discussions with engineers working in many... by Meta Tech Podcast
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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... by Meta Tech Podcast
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13: Android UI Infrastructure with Hilal: Did you watch F8 this year? You've probably seen the new Facebook blue and your app got a sleeker, more modern icon. Hilal is part of the team that made that happen and he joins Mihaela and Pascal on episode 13 to talk about how to scale packaging and... by Meta Tech Podcast
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23: Organising the Women of React Remote Conf: With large-scale public events seeming rather distant right now, the concept of virtual conferences is an exciting way to stay in touch with people and learn new things. Pascal is joined by the organising team of the Women of React conference, where... by Meta Tech Podcast
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25: Instagram Reels with Kevin and Martin: For another socially distant interview, Pascal and Rachel are joined by Martin and Kevin who work on Instagram Reels, which had its global launch just a few weeks ago. They lift the veil on country tests, what makes stitching videos seamlessly... by Meta Tech Podcast
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26: Kotlin Redux with Thomas: Rachel () and Pascal () are back for another interview about Android infrastructure at FB. Thomas joins them to share how the internal Kotlin adoption has progressed since the last time we checked in with Sergey on the topic. In the deeply technical... by Meta Tech Podcast
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28: Modularising iOS Apps with Fabio: Fabio joins Pascal to go deep into a listener question: How does Facebook modularise iOS applications? After discussing the state of the iOS build systems and package managers out in the wild, they turn to Buck, Facebook’s monorepo build system, and... by Meta Tech Podcast
47 min listen
18: Outside Facebook Mobile at the London Mobile Forum 2019: Once a year, Facebook invites developers from various companies to a cosy place somewhere in East London to talk for a day about scaling challenges on mobile. This year, Mihaela and Pascal join the fun and talk to a bunch of the attendees, which are... by Meta Tech Podcast
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41: Earth Week Special - Carbon Explorer with Bilge: For our second special for Earth Week, we are talking to Bilge who works as a research scientist at Meta AI. Her open-source project Carbon Explorer evaluates solutions to make data centres operate on 24/7 renewable energy. Why this is easier said... by Meta Tech Podcast
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20: droidcon London 2019, Part II: For the last episode of the decade, Pascal is joined by Inside Facebook Mobile royalty Emil, who shares what he has been up to since his last appearance on the podcast and how Facebook Open Source is still part of his day-to-day work. Then we head... by Meta Tech Podcast
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Update: No Interview Episode for March: Unfortunately due to the current global pandemic, we don't have an interview for you, but stay tuned and subscribe to the feed for some remote interviews in the near future. Do follow @, @, and @ for updates. by Meta Tech Podcast
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14: Facebook iOS UI Infrastructure with Adam: Episode 14 introduces Adam, the first dedicated iOS developer that Mihaela and Pascal have hosted on the podcast. Adam created ComponentKit, an iOS open-source framework inspired by React, and he joins this episode to tell the story of how the... by Meta Tech Podcast
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