Best Pascal Hartig Podcasts (2025)

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73: Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025 42:43

1M ago42:43

42:43

Join Pascal and Sabrina on the latest Meta Tech Podcast episode as they discuss the evolution and future of GraphQL. From client-side consistency to innovative APIs, learn how GraphQL is making developers' lives easier and enhancing user experiences. Discover surprising insights into the challenges of building a mobile GraphQL platform and how it's…

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72: Multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses 39:34

2M ago39:34

39:34

In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, host Pascal sits down with Shane, a research scientist at Meta, to explore the cutting-edge research behind Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Shane shares insights from his seven-year journey at Meta, where he focuses on computer vision and multimodal AI within the Wearables AI organization. Tune in to learn how Shane'…

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71: Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale 38:09

3M ago38:09

38:09

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 safety. Eve and Jocelyn, two software engineers on the Mobile Infra Codebases Team have taken on this challenge and talk host Pascal through the unexp…

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70: Jetpack Compose at Meta 44:30

4M ago44:30

44:30

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 existing design components, integrations with navigation and logging frameworks? That is where Summer and her team come in who handle large-scale migrations …

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69: To type or not to type — measuring productivity impact with DAT 40:21

5M ago40:21

40:21

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 Time or DAT, here at Meta. Want to know how we leverage metrics to run experiments on productivity in our internal codebase? Tune in to episode 69. Go…

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68: How to Build a Mixed Reality Headset 34:52

6M ago34:52

34:52

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 right display technology, battery, thermal budget and of course hitting the right price point. How he manages to not fall victim to choice paralysis an…

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67: Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time 37:01

7M ago37:01

37:01

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 are actually successful? For any other product, you would run an A/B test but that requires metrics and how do you measure developer productivity? Sari…

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66: Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta 44:21

8M ago44:21

44:21

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 Jupyter, including scheduled notebooks, sharing with colleagues and running notebooks without a remote server component by leveraging Webassembly in the …

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65: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography 35:49

9M ago35:49

35:49

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 algorithms. To keep Meta’a users safe even from attacks that don’t even exist today, Sheran and Rafael are working on post-quantum-ready encryption. Tune i…

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64: Caddy - Building the next generation of CAD software for Mixed Reality 1:04:19

10M ago1:04:19

1:04:19

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 started to build Caddy - a CAD app for mixed reality. Tune in to episode 64 to hear their story. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threa…

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63: The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship 45:00

11M ago45:00

45:00

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 even async Rust has become a lot easier. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threads.net/@metatechpod), Twitter (https://twitter.com/metatec…

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62: Building Threads for Web 40:07

1y ago40:07

40:07

The basic version of Threads for web was built in just under three months by two engineers, mirroring the nimble engineering practices we talked about on this podcast before when it came to launching Threads for Android and iOS. In this episode, Pascal is joined by Ally and Kevin, two engineers on the Threads Web team. They talk about how shared in…

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61: Image Quality Improvements at Scale 37:29

1y ago37:29

37:29

Every day, trillions of image download requests are made from Meta’s family of apps. Zuzanna works on the Media Platform Team that owns the entire flow from serving images from the CDN to displaying the pixels on your phone. One of the project she and her team recently worked on was rolling out HDR images to Instagram and Threads and in this episod…

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60: Simplified Executable Deployment with DotSlash 40:40

1y ago40:40

40:40

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 Rust program with a JSON manifest prefixed with a #! to transparently fetch and execute the binary you need. Tune in to our interview with Andres and Mic…

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59: Meta ❤️ Python 3.12 38:13

1y ago38:13

38:13

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 join Pascal to talk about their contributions to the latest release, including new hooks that allow for custom JITs like Cinder, Immortal Objects, impro…

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58: Advancing GenAI at Meta 30:10

1+ y ago30:10

30:10

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 AI differs notably from other companies and what the future has in store. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threads.net/@metatechpod), T…

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ARCHIVE: From Facebook Home to Instagram Stories 45:41

1+ y ago45:41

45:41

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 interview next month. Got feedback? Send it to us on Threads (https://threads.net/@metatechpod), Twitter (https://twitter.com/metatechpod), Instagram …

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57: Writing and linting Python at scale 49:32

1+ y ago49:32

49:32

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 of the Meta Tech Podcast to talk about how the Python Foundation Team works to improve the developer experience of everyone working with Python at Meta…

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56: How Threads was built in 5 months 31:10

1+ y ago31:10

31:10

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 Joy, Cameron and Richard, three engineers from the Threads team who worked on backend, iOS and Android, respectively to learn about the challenges they…

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55: What it's like to ship code at Meta 49:04

1+ y ago49:04

49:04

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 review? What does our CI infrastructure look like? Get the answers to these questions and many more in this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast. Got feed…

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54: Building Key Transparency at WhatsApp 43:23

2y ago43:23

43:23

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 that end-to-end encryption provides to private, personal messaging applications in a transparent manner available to all. Rolling out a feature like t…

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53: Offensive security at Meta’s Red Team X 41:38

2y ago41:38

41:38

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 traditional red team, which focuses on probing their own organisation's systems and products for vulnerabilities, and an elite bug-hunting group. The …

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52: The success story behind PyTorch 32:36

2y ago32:36

32:36

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 advocate here at Meta, to dissect the history of PyTorch and look at the factors that contributed to its success. That includes understanding your target au…

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51: Buck2 - a large-scale build system 32:53

2y ago32:53

32:53

For episode 51, Pascal speaks with Neil and Marie, two of the engineers behind Buck2, our open source, large scale build system. Thousands of developers at Meta are already using Buck2 and performing millions of builds per day that on average complete in half the time of Buck1 builds. Marie and Neil discuss the design choices that make Buck2 so muc…

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50: De-identified authentication at scale 34:45

2y ago34:45

34:45

If you hear privacy and your first thought is laborious processes and access management, this interview may be just as mind-expanding for you as it was for our host Pascal. He is joined by Alex and Haozhi who talk about the Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identif…

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Pascal Hartig Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Meta Tech Podcast

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73: Mobile GraphQL at Meta in 2025 42:43

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72: Multimodal AI for Ray-Ban Meta glasses 39:34

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71: Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale 38:09

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70: Jetpack Compose at Meta 44:30

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69: To type or not to type — measuring productivity impact with DAT 40:21

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68: How to Build a Mixed Reality Headset 34:52

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67: Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time 37:01

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66: Inside Bento - Serverless Jupyter Notebooks at Meta 44:21

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65: Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography 35:49

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64: Caddy - Building the next generation of CAD software for Mixed Reality 1:04:19

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63: The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship 45:00

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62: Building Threads for Web 40:07

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61: Image Quality Improvements at Scale 37:29

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60: Simplified Executable Deployment with DotSlash 40:40

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59: Meta ❤️ Python 3.12 38:13

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58: Advancing GenAI at Meta 30:10

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ARCHIVE: From Facebook Home to Instagram Stories 45:41

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57: Writing and linting Python at scale 49:32

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56: How Threads was built in 5 months 31:10

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55: What it's like to ship code at Meta 49:04

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54: Building Key Transparency at WhatsApp 43:23

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53: Offensive security at Meta’s Red Team X 41:38

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52: The success story behind PyTorch 32:36

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51: Buck2 - a large-scale build system 32:53

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50: De-identified authentication at scale 34:45

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