How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
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#214 million doing not so complex things is an easy achievement. When you get into a lot of microservices providing tons of features your teams will balloon.
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#3Can someone confirm this story who has inside knowledge?
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#4"When you choose the right people you'll need only a few. When you don't, you'll need them all"
Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
#5"When you choose the right people you'll need only a few. When you don't, you'll need them all"
The right idea too.
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Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
#7> we can assume that Instagram was written using Objective-C and a combination of other things like UIKit.
How can they know the internal infrastructure but have to assume the app language?
Edit: So the entire piece is taken almost verbatim as-is from a couple old articles on instagram engineering blog.
It might as well just redirect to: https://instagram-engineering.com/what-powers-instagram-hund...
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Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
#8Interesting
I wonder if its seems easy because it’s explained simply or if it really is simple to put in place.
I want to make a clone now, just to try. At least for this inspiration, this article was well worth the read. Thanks !
Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
#9Can someone confirm this story who has inside knowledge?
Sources are linked at the bottom of the article!
Re: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
#10I have chills thinking about the oncall schedule of these 3 colleagues...