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In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct messaging as well as a myriad of other features and enhancements. However, as the product grew, a side effect was that our web performance began to slow. Over the last year we made a conscious […]
One of the most exciting announcements at WWDC this year was the introduction of platform-wide dark mode in iOS 13. During WWDC a group of enthusiastic iOS engineers and designers from Instagram’s design systems team banded together to begin plotting out what it would take to adopt dark mode in our app. This week’s update […]
Tamar is the Head of Analytics at Instagram. She supports a team of data scientists and data engineers responsible for analytics, data science, and experimentation. Tamar also leads the Diversity and Inclusion task force at Instagram. She is a passionate advocate for women in tech and has served as a mentor for Minds Matter and […]
Over the last few years, Instagram Direct has grown to be a core part of sharing content and experiences with your close friends on Instagram. This isn’t a privilege we take lightly; it’s incredibly important that we deliver each message as reliably and as quickly as possible. The Internet transfers data at the Speed of […]
Instagram prides itself on having a lean app. But as the number of engineers and features grows, so do the challenges to size. We start to face issues like: increase in application size downloaded from an app store increase in cold start time, and more generally, increased time to interaction with different surfaces inside the […]
The Instagram community is bigger and more diverse than ever before. 800m people now visit every month, 80% of whom are outside of the United States. As the community grows, it becomes more and more important that our app can withstand diverse network conditions, a growing variety of devices, and non-traditional usage patterns. The client […]
Android is a huge ecosystem, with more than 1 billion active users spanning thousands of different device models. People who use Android have an incredible amount of choice, with significant variations in speed, feature set, and cost. Screen size is the most obvious variable — popular Android devices span from 240 x 320 to 1080 […]
At Instagram, our mission is to help people capture and share the world’s moments. We care deeply about the moments that people share on our platform, so enhancing how people view these moments is really important. Instagram recently launched a new design for Explore that includes “video channels”, which play in a new, full-screen, immersive […]
10 min read · Jun 21, 2016 The first version of Instagram for Android was built in four months by a team of two engineers. It’s been four years since that launch, and in that time we’ve added features such as video, direct messaging, photo maps, advertiser support, and new ways to discover and explore […]