The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars

Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by cageface on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @02:16AM (#3820969)

Or, we've learned that even the biggest web companies can now be built with fairly vanilla technology and that obsessing over clever bespoke scaling schemes is largely a waste of time.

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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by Tossrock on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:26AM (#3821171)

I think it'd be more accurate to say "Even /fairly large/ web companies can now be built [et cetera]". Good luck putting Google on AWS. Or (relevant to the name of this website) AWS.

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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by cageface on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:44AM (#3821222)

I think now you could even build a fledgling Google on AWS. Once you start getting real traction then you may outgrow it but there's really no point in even talking about those steps until you have a few million users beating down your door.

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