The Working Behind Instagram - 0 views
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Lenna Kovalevich on 06 May 14This 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."