Re: Instangram is powered by PostgreSQL

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: unclesam <geekmatter(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Instangram is powered by PostgreSQL
Date: 2012-04-10 13:26:32
Message-ID: CAHyXU0yfU9KmfXLcGerVkwmrVtCh7b7JicsaDvFe_yN+dxHnRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:50 AM, unclesam <geekmatter(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> just wanna to share that Instagram use PostgreSQL. excellent ! this company
> worth for 1 billion is powered by PostgreSQL
>
> Click link below
>
> http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-architecture-facebook-bought-for-a-cool-billio.html
>
> http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/20541814340/keeping-instagram-up-with-over-a-million-new-users-in

pretty neat to see postgres mentioned in high scalability
environments. one of my favorite quotes from the article:

"Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (“Natty Narwhal”). Solid, other Ubuntu versions
froze on them."

merlin

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