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How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

ByteByteGo

ByteByteGo

Alex Xu • Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

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How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

Key Takeaways:

  • Rapid Growth: Instagram grew from 1 million users in two months to over 1 billion users by 2018, necessitating significant infrastructure scaling.
  • Infrastructure Challenges: Early challenges included manual server scaling, database overload, and lack of automated monitoring.
  • Scaling Strategies: Instagram adopted three key scaling dimensions:

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