Thread: Instangram is powered by PostgreSQL
unclesam 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 Hopefully that will infect Facebook, which is MySQL otherwise, or at least hopefully MySQL won't infect Instagram. -- Darren Duncan
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:50 AM, unclesam <geekmatter@yahoo.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