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Bots or not, Facebook has orders of magnitude more traffic.

• dannyw 2mo ago
  Yes, but their shapes are very different. Most users interact with a small, geographically constrained bubble. It is (comparably) an easier problem for the usage patterns of Facebook. The app is also designed so when you open Insta, only a few images are shown, infinite scroll is there for a reason. The search page suggestions? Probably from a cache and then re-ranked quickly.
• aurareturn 2mo ago
  HTTP traffic is different from run this CPU intensive pipeline service for 10 minutes and now increase the volume by 100x in a few months. I used to manage a popular app/website that had tens of billions of real user page views per month. It wasn't easy but it also wasn't hard. It was surprisingly easy with a single large Postgres DB, a lot of caching, optimized tables and queries.