How Instagram Scaled to 14 Million Users With Only 3 Engineers
In this video, we will explore how Instagram managed to scale so well with only 3 engineers in their early days.
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As requested description of each technology has been added below.
Timelines:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:14 - Webservers
00:00:50 - Postgres
00:02:27 - Sharding (unique identifiers)
00:05:32 - Sharding (postgres schema)
00:06:00 - Replication
00:06:19 - Task queue & push notification
00:06:43 - Other technologies
00:07:09 - Ending
Technologies:
EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing you to run virtual servers for various computing needs.
Django: Django is a high-level Python web framework that simplifies the process of building web applications by providing pre-built components and enforcing a clean and pragmatic design.
Load balancer: A load balancer distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, and minimize response time.
NGINX: NGINX is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy server that handles incoming web requests, serving static content efficiently, and can also act as a load balancer.
Postgres: PostgreSQL (often referred to as Postgres) is a powerful open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) known for its reliability, robustness, and extensibility.
ZooKeeper: Apache ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. It is often used in distributed systems for coordination and consensus.
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