How Instagram Grew to 14,000,000 Users With 3 Devs

[@CodingWithLewis]

Hi everyone :) I got married lately and was on a bit of a break! Glad to be back and posting videos! Let me know what you want to see.

[@Youngsinsta]

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Congratulations

[@TheZUser]

Congratulations

[@nullbeyondo]

Congrats!! :)

[@Alex.Shalda]

Congrats!!!

[@chrisnatale5901]

I really like how you turn software architecture into a compelling narrative! You earned my subscription.

[@zygimantasjasiunas5240]

Love the "True-crime stories" vibe, where all the details are uncovered step by step. Great story telling! I really like how your channel is positively progressing over time.

[@nathanmynett6758]

10/10 As a developer in a small company it's hard to scope out what needs to be done to make a solution *infinitely* scalable. It's great to understand how big companies handle big data to provide insight on how I can develop solutions Cheers

[@nullbeyondo]

Just watched it all! It's enlightening that you mentioned each problem they faced and what different practical techniques and technologies they used to overcome them)

[@CodingWithLewis]

Agreed!

[@pvic6959]

those 3 did that.. meanwhile me on my WFH day: watching youtube all day doing no work smh

[@normalitee0os]

I generally don't watch such video but the presentation of this video ket me hooked to the end. Its just amazing! Kudos to you and your team!

[@heikkiliukkonen3921]

These videos are so interesting! Always the things we take for granted are somehow the most fascinating.

[@NourHammouda-p5e]

I love these kind of videos. Keep it up Lewis ❤

[@holthuizenoemoet591]

Amazing that Django handled the entire application sided of things. Always loved python for web programming.

[@ninobach7456]

Is Django the go to for back end development in Python?

[@holthuizenoemoet591]

@@ninobach7456 Its build really well, and has a lot of community with experience behind it. Its also easy to setup and develop with. But flask and tornado are also populair (but i wouldn't recommand them unless you work in a team that knows what they are doing. )

[@saadkaleem1449]

@@ninobach7456 Not anymore, async frameworks like FastAPI are taking over.

[@martinmetskula6384]

@@ninobach7456yes, among Flask and FastAPI

[@raizo856]

@@ninobach7456 pretty much

[@LinuxCoder-Root]

Basically the 3 engineers uses Amazon ready-to-use technologies :-)

[@iOSAcademy]

Great video!

[@JemilMarcosTyC]

Mind blown! Great video!

[@hypein2297]

Nice way to teach system design, totally liked it.

[@tahakhan88]

This video made me feel like a speck of dust in the field of web programming. I use php and mysql to store and retrieve info from one server. With a million users per day the way I handle the load is by making the server more powerful rather than scaling up horizontally. This is such an eye opener :|

[@TheKhalid1]

I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think there’s actual a really good use-case for vertically scaling your existing server and is often overlooked! Simplicity is super helpful.

[@abubakarsadeeq2974]

Your contents are at another level, lewis

[@peterakande]

This is amazing. Nice explanations, I loved every bit of it!

[@realMattGavin]

I love your story time videos. They are informative and entertaining. The unicorn part got me 😂

[@illusionhex1200]

Horizontal Scaling is Awesome, I love the concept.

[@lowkeygaming4716]

I really like this topic especially because I'm a backend dev that uses Python. It highlights what amazing stuff you can do with it outside machine learning and AI.

[@wisdomelue]

the quality of this video is insane

[@avdain]

As always keep up with your videos! 😉🔥

[@sayyedhouse3871]

Video starts: "How did three software engineers alone..."

[@roast-salamander]

You can see the effort put into these videos. I see a great future for this channel. My subscription is yours oh great one.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Absolutely impressive how they made all of these pieces fall in line and interface correctly. I imagine it would be hell to diagnose a bug on such a complex system. Where do you even start? They would've had to choose from dozens of different terminals and log systems to even start looking at what is happening.

[@everythingjdm8057]

Great content man

[@santosimark]

Absolutely mind-blowing! This documentary showcasing how Instagram scaled to 14M users with just three engineers is a testament to their incredible ingenuity and resourcefulness. It's a prime example of how a small, dedicated team can create monumental impact through innovation and smart engineering. Truly inspiring for aspiring tech entrepreneurs!

[@afsalmuhammed4239]

Hi chatgpt

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[@berkaykurkcu]

Great video! Mad editing skills, Lewis. Love the vibe of this video. Felt like an episode from Mr. Robot hahah

[@davidmesaros9733]

i really like how the videos are made. keep up the good work

[@gawt873]

Please don't stop producing this kind of video, it's really good!😃

[@kunwardeepsingh127]

You should start making more videos like this, like how companies handle things 😇

[@palashbaderia7113]

Loved the content, really amazing, would love to see your videos on different firm's infrastructure to understand tech better.

[@zuman_one]

One of the best system designs video 🎉

[@gdimmortal]

my mind: Guni-corn 💀

[@dion9795]

I love how you make engineering principles suspenseful and interesting. Well done. New sub.

[@gabrielfono844]

Have a lot to learn as backend engineer

[@JuanesChiwirosky]

great video, it is very inspiring to see what those engineers were able to build with that three principles🎉🎉🎉

[@KousseilaMd]

great video and great presentation of the whole things, nicz work and thank you

[@estebanzavala9533]

knowing whats going on in the background is important even more interesting the way its being delivered here thank you

[@Tharushi_SM]

This is really good. Thank you so much for the awesome content.

[@Dakappon]

Wow, this is Netflix level documentary!

[@RajA-me9cl]

That was so helpful. Thank you.

[@Pringles1]

this video is underrated

[@nothing606]

Congratulations bro🎉 Make video on AI in video games

[@CodingWithLewis]

Stay tuned :)

[@froilanimnida]

Quality Content! Keep it up Lewis!

[@zachzeurcher6450]

This format is great! Keep up the great work!

[@imadeddinekebour9278]

when i see this type of videos i know surely that I'm still a beginner

[@Marwin.]

Super interesting video. Good Job :)

[@phandc4581]

You must be one of three legendary engineers. Thanks for amazing content.

[@MrWidzek]

please more content like this

[@user-wc1sm8cj8s]

it's crazy to think how Python powered Instagram in its early stage where it experienced massive growth, given Python's reputation for being a not so performant language.

[@IxMeTutorials]

Python still powers Instagram, however they have their own in house CPython version called "Cinder" which has much better performance and is tailored exactly to their requirements.

[@supermanish4429]

i'm amazed as well as inspired to lern these tech!

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

07:24 why should there be more than 25 connections?

[@iCrimzon]

Bro the scaling needed for everything is too immense to think of

[@jenithmehta9603]

Amazing video, I'm using some of the tools mentioned in the video.

[@maghani.official]

This video is truly incredible in its quality and content! Special thanks

[@Alex.Shalda]

Absolutely amazing

[@MandarKarekar]

Loved it , I have subscribed to your channel now 👍🏻

[@69k_gold]

Posts and messages are generally not modified quickly, so that's cool. But what about the rapidly changing ones like comments, likes, etc? How can we be sure that the cached value in the CDN is the actual value or atleast close? (Yes I'm talking about one of the two hardest problems in CS)

[@harish.bhuvanachandar]

Great post. Subscribed to your channel.

[@alexffvibes3887]

Great stuff!

[@miguelemmara5046]

contetn is gold, its like im wathing netflix crime documentaries

[@kbsunil7464]

Every ting seems good but Infoq London summit says something different like Casandra as well

[@MagnetsMediaBackup]

Very good editing

[@yassinesafraoui]

How did you find these informations, I mean technologies Instagram used and may have even stopped using right now

[@RegenerationOfficial]

are trends just data optimization for instances? because everything is just locally relevant

[@shis10]

Amazing Insights

[@mistajutub2197]

I really enjoyed the content of the video 🎉 but I was a bit irritated by the flow or the narrative rhythm of the video. There was a lot of silence/emphasis on unimportant animations. Don’t want to be unappreciative, thought! I enjoyed it anyways but it’s just something I noticed ❤

[@HarryDaDevSecond]

More of this!!!

[@mikulcek]

Great story telling, loved it!

[@AsifSaifuddinAuvipy]

I saw a talk from Instagram engineers talking about celery framework server for background task scaling

[@Fegro963]

I had to solo craft entire infrastructure for a company that is now operating in dozens of countries. When it keeps going for longer, you switch from engineering issues to mental issues..

[@davidmataviejo3313]

I love this new way to study system design

[@allezvenga7617]

Thanks for your sharing

[@mikealejandro3938]

Nigga, this shit was crazy, and i loved it, keep it going gang 🚀

[@elexbeats]

With all that complexity, resources to buy, developers to pay, have you ever wondered how the app manages to stay free of charge ? Remeber, you’re the product.

[@mhr_code]

Good old days when Kubernetes wasn't a thing

[@artmort1805]

Awesome video! Thanks !

[@JusticeNDOU]

i think you are wrong buddy, the user application normally will have a set point of where to request the data, that set point is always a CDN . in other words all URLS on the user side goes to the CDN, then if the CDN contains the data and the data is not stale it returns the DATA, the Server Application never needs to translate the Object Storage URL to a CDN URL , its Just that the User Application is never aware of all that sort of thing or even that the Server Application will send the Object Storage URL to the CDN.

[@Torbikini]

Where did you get the slick animated icons at the three rules portion? I loved those! Especially the reinvent the wheel one!

[@bobcoderz]

This is Modern dystopia 😅

[@abhinav.t1602]

how do you create these videos? Specially the graphics that you show to explain the architecture and flow of the request/response?

[@fabiojonathanarifin1]

i love this episode! make more please!

[@stevenquistian]

Not sure if I'm inspired to learn, or to quit.....

[@chrisstadler7111]

Omg! 25 instances!? Impossible 😮 😂

[@enlightenedmalkov5620]

Simple, Instagram is not a technology innovation. One software engineer could be also enough

[@s1l3nttt]

if you made this video a while ago it would've been super helpful haha

[@xTrueBlamex]

Thanks for the great video! You spell it Gunicorn btw.. This is common knowledge. \s

[@surajkishor]

Make a video on how KZbin is made

[@gameplaystrailers7797]

This was sooo good so informative and entertaining Do Snapchat next

[@BlueXDShadow]

These weren't three ordinary engineers, I be they were 10x'ers

[@basit147]

how much these 3 developers got from employee's share when Instagram was snapped by Facebook for a billion dollar?

[@xxleosk8xx]

As always great content Lewis did you see discord went down yesterday ? can you make a video on that thank you

[@tpotjj2979]

This architecture is so simple yet to powerfull. People tend to over-engineer their whole application, with the latest and greatest tools, but they forget that you can handle millions of users with something so well put together like the Instagram architecture on AWS build with Python/Django.

[@natgenesis5038]

As an iOS engineer ,this video is too backbend I’m kinda confused love it by the way .

[@pr0gstar]

Hey, thanks for the video. It was fun watching it. As a software engineer, myself, I enjoyed it very much. First you explained the challenge and I thought about what I would use to solve this, and then I watch further, and it was always the same solution the guys from Instagram came up with.

[@MrIsrael3000]

Wondering why they used memcache instead of redis for DB results caching.

[@entity000]

Gunicorn is G-Unicorn - stands for Green Unicorn lol so it pronounced Either GUNI-Corn or G-Unicorn depending on what you'd feel good about.

[@RedHair651]

You can really tell there are only three engineers. Buggiest app ever.

[@brand5991]

Incredible production quality! Please keep it up.

[@szookk]

They did a lot od overtime.