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Django @Instagram - Carl Meyer
Django Chat
The Evolution of Instagram's Scaling Challenges
Instagram was built on Django, which is not designed to scale. Mike Reager: The ORM was one of the first things that had scaling problems. He says Instagram didn't have access to multidatabase support at the time. This caused a problem when popular users like Justin Bieber would make a post and then everybody goes to like and comment on that post.
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