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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
Does anyone have a theory on what enabled Instagram to get to 27m users with only 13 employees in 2012, and why that still seems very difficult today despite all the SASS products helping startups? Some game companies also used to release a new game monthly in the 90s, without code completion, Copilot, Git, Github!
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Alex Loukissas 🍉
@futureartist
From a technical POV, takeaways: 1. KISS 2. Use proven, boring technologies 3. Don't reinvent the wheel https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-instagram-scaled-to-14-million
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
I actually didn’t realize all those AWS products were around at that time.
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Alex Loukissas 🍉
@futureartist
Which ones? EC2 and S3 and CF were the OG services :)
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