Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on building the app with Instagram's tech stack, handling Threads' unexpectedly intense launch, and more (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

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Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer:

Q&A with Threads engineers Jesse Chen and Zahan Malkani on constructing the app with Instagram’s tech stack, dealing with Threads’ unexpectedly intense launch, and extra  —  The Threads app was downloaded by greater than 100M folks on launch week.  How did the engineering group construct the app, and deal with an unexpectedly intense launch?