On: The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram

[paulgb]

I'm curious to know how Toronto got to be the demo city. Facebook has a non-engineering presence there but I was surprised to see it on their engineering blog!

[turtlesoup → paulgb]

Both Alex and I are from Toronto (we are the engineers on Hyperlapse). I shot it on a little visit at the start of the summer and it became our go-to demo. That water taxi is particularly windy, bumpy and beautiful.

[paulgb → turtlesoup]

Cool, you built Waterloo Course Qualifier! I remember using that. Glad to hear that Instagram has an engineering presence in Toronto.

[paulgb → paulgb]

(Too late to edit this, but Thomas clarified that the team is from Toronto but based in Menlo Park)

[karanbhangui → paulgb]

This tech was originally built by the Midnox[1] team from Waterloo/Toronto (YCW12), and later acquired by Instagram.

[1] http://blog.luma.io/