Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

NewRelic's product screenshots look really nice, but 1) the hosted nature and 2) the price were turnoffs. We might revisit it at some point, though--there are a few features in there that would be awesome to have.

Re: Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

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Post by sciurus » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

A slight tangent, since I saw that instagram are using both Graphite and Munin- Collectd just added a plugin to send metrics to Graphite. You might want to try it for tracking your machine stats over time.

http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Graphite http://collectd.org/

Re: Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

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Post by jcastro » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

What OS are you deploying on EC2?

Re: Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

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Post by mikeyk » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

jcastro wrote: post #7

What OS are you deploying on EC2?

We use Ubuntu, running Natty Narwhal. Every Ubuntu version before that had some (unique) bugs that would bite us under load. Natty has been by far the most stable.

Re: Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

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Post by zupreme » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 9:33 PM UTC

Thanks for OpenSourcing Node2dm. I think I'll take that for a spin this weekend.

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Post by EAMiller » Thu, Apr 05, 2012, 9:46 PM UTC

What sort of hosting do you use for your main Pg (and Redis) instances?