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)

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)

Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer:
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  —  The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week.  How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?