A reasonably interesting explanation of how the Instagram folks have scaled their Postgresql to "[...]more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram." http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram
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