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Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage by mrits on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:13AM (#25375216)
By web version I'm guessing you mean server side?

Server side was a few python components with lots of tricks in Postgres for scaling purposes. You didn't have any real choices for what language you used in iOS

Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage by sharker8 on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:55AM (#25385176)
Yes, that's what I meant. The point I was trying to make was that just knowing server side scripting was a necessary but not sufficient condition to create a hit photo sharing app at that time, because there weren't many options on the camera at the time, and the filters were what drove the growth at that time.