It's Time for Start-ups
(A comprehensive report on instagram)
-Gowthami Reddy, IP Dome
INSTAGRAM
Meet Instagram
It’s
a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos
with friends and family.
Snap a picture, choose a filter to
transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook,
Twitter, and Tumblr too – it's as easy as pie. Its photo sharing, reinvented.
Key Technologies
used in developing Instagram:
OS: ubunto 11.04 on EC2
Load Balancing: Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
Application Servers: Django on Amazon
WSGI: Gunicorn
Data Storage: PostgreSQL. Amazon S3
Task Queue: Gearman
Monitoring: Munin,Pingdom
Facebook’s
Instagram Acquisition:
In April, 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram along with its 13
employees for an insane amount of $1 Billion. The strategy behind Facebook’s
acquisition of this young startup for such an insane amount is to negotiate the
completion in the market. Secondly, Instagram is one technology that deals with
the photo management and correction which is the core competency that brings
value to the existing Facebook apps.
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