Interesting Snippets from 2012-07-15

• What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies - Instagram Engineering

  One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future. This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we’ve been live, and while there are parts we’re always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year. Our core principles when choosing a system are: Keep it very simple Don’t re-invent the wheel Go with proven and solid technologies when you can

• Recline Data Explorer and Library

  A simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML.

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