Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil...
by wavephorm on Monday April 09, 2012 @07:38PM
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That's a long list of open source projects. I wonder did Instagram contribute to any of them, or help out in any way?
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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil...
by Tossrock on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:23AM
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I am going to guess "no". For three people to scale a site to that size, I imagine it was a daily battle just to keep the thing flying. Not to mention, if they ran into a problem that could potentially be solved with some deep magic done on a forked OSS project... or another ten extra large instances, given their valuation I can imagine which direction they would lean.