‘Futures and Promises’ – How Instagram leverages it for better resource utilization
Futures and Promises is a concept that enables a process to execute asynchronously, improving performance and resource consumption. It can be applied in multiple contexts, such as in request-response in a web service call, long-running computations, database queries, remote procedure calls, interservice communication in distributed...
Instagram architecture & database – How does it store & search billions of images
Instagram is the most popular photo-oriented social network on the planet today. With over a billion users, it has become the first choice for businesses to run their marketing campaigns on. This write-up is a deep dive into its platform architecture and addresses questions like...
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