Saturday, April 13, 2013

Scaling Instagram

The following slideshow gives very good insights on scaling instagram.

The primary technology used are

  • Python with Django
  • C
  • AWS EC2
  • Nginx
  • Redis
  • Postgres

Take away:

  • Don't forget your favicons - 404s may cause you a lot of errors and drag down your applications
  • Scaling = replacing all components of a car while driving it at 100mph
  • Use http://highscalability.com.
  • instrument everything
  • having everyone know the code inside out
  • horizontal sharding


http://www.scribd.com/doc/89025069/Mike-Krieger-Instagram-at-the-Airbnb-tech-talk-on-Scaling-Instagram

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