Comment on What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of TechnologiesComments−mistercow14yI'm pretty sure that "dozens of technologies" is a meaningless thing to say. Instagram is powered by thousands of technologies; it's just that a few dozen of those happen to have trendy buzzwords attached.−zio99OP14yTrue, there's a good blog post regarding that scrappy attitude most hackers have and why we need to simply our architecture: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-y...−shoo14yInstagram! Powered by the polio vaccine and domestication of wheat.−skeletonjelly14yInstagram! Powered by a lack of earth destroying quantum vacuum metastability!−mistercow14yI'm pretty sure that one's not a technology, but just a happy and not very unlikely set of circumstances.
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I'm pretty sure that "dozens of technologies" is a meaningless thing to say. Instagram is powered by thousands of technologies; it's just that a few dozen of those happen to have trendy buzzwords attached.
True, there's a good blog post regarding that scrappy attitude most hackers have and why we need to simply our architecture: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-y...
Instagram! Powered by the polio vaccine and domestication of wheat.
Instagram! Powered by a lack of earth destroying quantum vacuum metastability!
I'm pretty sure that one's not a technology, but just a happy and not very unlikely set of circumstances.