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meta At Meta, WebRTC powers real-time audio and video across various platforms. But forking a large open-source project like WebRTC within our monorepo presents unique challenges – over time, an internal fork can drift behind upstream, cutting itself off from community upgrades. We’r…
toss This is the English version of a previously published article. What Is the Software 3.0 Era? In June 2025, Andrej Karpathy gave a talk at Y Combinator AI Startup School. He broke software's evolution into three stages. Software 1.0: What we've done for decades. Writing explicit…
datadog Thomas Sobolik Technical Content Writer Ivo Dimitrov In this edition of the Datadog Engineering Spotlight, Tom from the Community team sat down with Ivo Dimitrov, one of our Engineering VPs. Tom and Ivo spoke about Ivo's career as an engineering manager for several top organizat…
figma Speeding up C++ build times Inside Figma Engineering Infrastructure Quality & performance When we learned that engineers were losing hours building our C++ codebase, we jumped into investigating the root cause. Here’s how we cut build times in half and shipped a solution for sca…
figma How Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world Inside Figma Infrastructure Engineering Behind the scenes Engineering Manager Alice Ching discusses the parallels between developing gaming interfaces and building Figma and FigJam, and why our tech stack is more similar to a gam…