This year's F8 Developer Conference was full of Instagram product and technical deep dives. From platform updates to specific open source projects, level-up on your expertise with these five sessions.

1. Instagram Latest Product Updates - Hear from Instagram product managers on sharing from apps like Spotify and GoPro to Stories, AR face filters, Camera Effects, Explore, video chat, and filters for bullying comments. .

2. React – IG and Oculus - React is one of Facebook's most popular open source projects and allows developers to quickly create user interfaces on web, mobile, and VR. This talk will detail how Instagram uses React Native and how Oculus is building with React VR.

3. IGListKit - Learn how Instagram uses IGListKit to make working with UICollectionView on iOS easy, fast, and safe. We'll also share new IGListKit features and news on the open source project.

4. MonkeyType for Python - Type-checked Python can help you catch bugs and improve your code. Come learn from our experience typing a million-LoC production Python application with mypy and MonkeyType.

5. Cassandra on RocksDB - Instagram is running one of the largest Cassandra deployments in the world. In this talk, you'll hear about our motivation behind the project and the different approaches we considered, plus the high-level design and performance metrics of our implementation.