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by mikeyk 11y ago
This is primarily a server-gating feature. For the mobile clients, they periodically sync their experiment flags state using a call to the backend (eg at app start), which is handled using a related, but separate, system to Gate Logic.
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by mikeyk 11y ago
At Instagram we have split dev and prod enviroments; gates are shared between dev-servers, but split from production. For testing, we have context managers that let you do "with temporary_gate('gate_name', value)", so th
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Flexible Feature Control at Instagram(engineering.instagram.com)
42 points by mikeyk 11y ago|11 comments
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Flexible Feature Control at Instagram(engineering.instagram.com)
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Scaling the Instagram Data Team(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
8 points by mikeyk 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyk 11y ago
We (at IG) aren't claiming to be doing revolutionary things on infrastructure--but one thing I found super valuable when scaling Instagram in the early days was having access to stories from other companies on how they've scaled.
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Trending at Instagram(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
173 points by mikeyk 11y ago|12 comments
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by mikeyk 11y ago
To clarify, I was teaching things like how to use Windows and how to use an email account, so not coding-related. But yes--by the time I was at Meebo I was already picking up some industry coding experience, though not anywhere near what I&
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by mikeyk 11y ago
We've seen huge gains from making the system as realtime as possible. Consider a new user who hasn't followed anyone yet--each new follow is super helpful in informing the recommendation system.
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Improving Comment Rendering on Android(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
6 points by mikeyk 12y ago|0 comments
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Migrating from AWS to AWS(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
206 points by mikeyk 12y ago|15 comments
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Building a better Instagram app for Android(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
30 points by mikeyk 12y ago|2 comments
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Fast, auto-generated streaming JSON parsing for Android(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
39 points by mikeyk 12y ago|15 comments
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Low lighting means long exposure times which means motion blur trails that look weird once we run them through our stabilizer. Hope you get the chance to try it in brighter lighting at some point.
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Hi Colin, all Hyperlapse videos get saved out to your Camera Roll, and no FB or IG account is needed to use the app (there are sharing options for those two in the app, but they aren't a requirement to using it)
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Mike from IG here. Here's the direct App Store link while it propagates: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id740146917
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Mike (co-founder) from Instagram here. Thank you for raising the issue; it's an important one. We've been steadily increasing our HTTPS coverage--Instagram Direct, for example, which we launched in late 2013, is 100% HTTPS. For th
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Mike from IG here. Some early wins are integrations with spam fighting systems, logging infrastructure, and FB's Hive infrastructure.
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by mikeyk 12y ago
Mike from IG here. VPC was barely a thing when we got on AWS (2010) and at the time not the default. I would definitely have done VPC from day 1 in hindsight, though.
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by mikeyk 13y ago
Mike from Instagram here. We've now locked it down more (the actual admin contents were always properly protected). We're also part of Facebook's bug bounty whitehat program ( https://www.facebook.com/whitehat&
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What I Learned as an Oompa Loompa(ewherry.com)
8 points by mikeyk 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikeyk 13y ago
Yep--our Web products (including the logged-in Instagram.com) are built using React.
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by mikeyk 14y ago
Right now we support emoji if the browser does as well--for example, Safari on the Mac.
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by mikeyk 14y ago
Hey all, Mike Krieger (Instagram co-founder) here. Just wanted to offer some clarification since there's some speculation about the reason & scope for the verification mentioned in the article. When we receive evidence of a violation of
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by mikeyk 14y ago
We're very happy with it--given the constraints it's working well. The biggest drawback with our sharding/ID scheme is that it's harder to split off a single user if you need to special case.
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Handling Growth with Postgres(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
305 points by mikeyk 14y ago|83 comments
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Redis-faina: a query analysis tool for Redis(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
50 points by mikeyk 14y ago|2 comments
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by mikeyk 15y ago
Very excited to give this talk--if any of you have particular things you'd like to see me address let me know and I'll see if I can fit it in.
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by mikeyk 15y ago
You can hypothetically use something like hearbeatd to do it; we run every Redis master with an attached slave and manually failover for now. For a small team like ours, we prefer solutions that are easy to reason about and get back into a
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by mikeyk 15y ago
We've had to split munin across three masters (by machine role) because the graphing job was just locking on IO. Munin 2.0 moved over to all-dynamic CGI graphing, but I haven't gotten the chance to play with it yet.

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