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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by falcor84 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:53AM (#37532863)
I think the interesting "what happened" is about the consequences - has there been some objective drop in uptime/performance/errors or some other technical metric?
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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Sparkyte on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:59AM (#37532897)
Yes actually.

And one massive security breach.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by andrewinardeer on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:10AM (#37532945)
Even before he acquired the company they had security issues. Someone even managed to tweet from his account with a BTC scam.
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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by leereeves on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:09AM (#37532937)
Could you be more specific?
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