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Instagram Engineering: Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

Very impressive list of tools used.

instagram-engineering:

On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to the…

Postgresql authentication issues...

If you can’t login to the user you created in postgresql, check out the link…

Andrew Greene: No Compassion

Very sad… It seems that the woman was more concerned about not getting sued rather than caring about the well-being of someone.

andrewgreene:

I got doored today by a woman getting out of a cab. I was about 1 block away from my apartment, and my concentration was wandering to the tasks for the rest of my day (Hadoop World, etc.) Letting up for 1 second means danger. NYC is a terrible place to ride a bike. I was riding along at about 10…

Also: Why I'm learning to code

Finally a executive that will understand that constant meetings will have a negative impact on programmer productivity!

roybahat:

I run a company whose product is written in code, and I don’t yet speak the language. I sometimes feel like a newspaper publisher who has to take his editor’s word for it that the articles are good. You trust your people, you know you could never write the way they do, but it would still be good…