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Instagram Data Saver Mode

We recently shipped Data Saver Mode, a new feature on Instagram for Android that helps the app consume less mobile data. In this post, we’ll go over why we decided to work on this feature, our approach in developing it, the engineering implementation, and how people were impacted by it. The motivation behind building Data […]

Low-overhead wrappers using inline classes

Previously, we discussed how Kotlin’s type aliases could make our code more readable. However, if you remember, since type aliases don’t introduce new types, they don’t provide any type-safety. This week we will be exploring Kotlin’s experimental inline classes which have benefits that type aliases provide but go further than that. A little about inline […]

A Doll’s House

A Classic’s Club Book Review Author: Henrik Ibsen Genre : Realistic Problem Play Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Year of Publication: 21st December 1879 Number of Pages: 101 My Rating: 5 out of 5 I picked a Doll’s House as the next book to read for my Classics Club ’50 books in 5 years challenge’ because […]

Families Bond through Multi-Gen Travel

Whether we like to admit it or not, life just passes us by way too fast. Having recently lost my grandparents, I can tell you that I have never been more grateful for all the time that we spent together -and how much we loved traveling with them every summer. It is the time you […]