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Tumblr empowers people to create something extraordinary. Find and follow the things you love. Share photos, gifs, video, music, quotes, chats, links, and text - no matter where you are.

Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love. Create your own Tumblr blog today.

This week's focus on media, technology and creative practices shines the light on the many apps we use and sometimes even overlook. We see the intended purpose the creators meant for the app and its many other uses.

This is a tumblr blog run by Instagram that talks about all the factors that allows for the success and powering of the social media site Instagram. They say, "One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, "what's your stack?" We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future. This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we've been live, and while there are parts we're always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year."

This guy is one of my favorite artists right now....check him out!