That's what I like about Hacker News, clarification from the co-founder himself. I was very inspired by the original post on Instagram infrastructure: http://

That's what I like about Hacker News, clarification from the co-founder himself. I was very inspired by the original post on Instagram infrastructure: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha... mainly because the stack mirrored my tools of choice and how plain vanilla the stack was: AWS, Ubuntu, Django, Postgres, Redis.