This post is about sharding and IDs generation at Instagram. Original article: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, Instagram store a lot of data. To make sure all of these data fits into memory and is available quickly for users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data.
Instagram’s application servers run Django with PostgreSQL as our back-end database. Our first question after deciding to shard out our data was whether PostgreSQL should remain our primary data-store, or whether we should switch to something else. We evaluated a few different NoSQL solutions, but ultimately decided that the solution that best suited our needs would be to shard our data across a set of PostgreSQL servers. Continue reading Sharding & IDs at Instagram
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