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Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram - Instagram Engineering

Link: Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram - Instagram Engineering: "As we’ve scaled Instagram to an ever-growing number of active users, Postgres has continued to be our solid foundation and the canonical data storage for most of the data created by our users. While less than a year ago, we blogged about how we “stored a lot of data” at Instagram at 90 likes per second, we’re now pushing over 10,000 likes per second at peak–and our fundamental storage technology hasn’t changed."