Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest
Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale.
Executive Summary
Meta has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an emerging open protocol for real-time video streaming at scale. MoQ will help simplify our protocol stack for live streaming video and enhance overall user experience for live video. We’re sharing how we shipped MoQ on Instagram Live ingest, and what the future looks like from here. This work was also presented at DEMOQED 2026 . Instagram Live now uses the open standard transport protocol Media over QUIC (MoQ) for live video ingest on iOS and Android.
Hyperscale Open Source & Cloud Infrastructure Review
From an infrastructure engineering, cloud-native scale, and hyperscale governance standpoint: - **Hyperscale Provenance:** Open-sourcing internal frameworks subjects proprietary systems to rigorous public analysis. - **De-facto Standard Cohesion:** Publishing enterprise tooling establishes interoperable specifications across distributed execution. - **Vendor Decoupling:** Platform engineers can inspect underlying telemetry and memory layouts without black-box vendor lock-in.
Impact on the Open Ecosystem
Bridges enterprise engineering scale with independent, reproducible open-source software stacks.