It was way too early to start crying at work.
So I’m sharing my pain with you. I can’t even look at the picture.
Had me all the way thru officers salute police dog and then I fucking lost it
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The lightly avant-garde
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Dogs and I taking an “AC bath” after a hot walk
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Instagram Engineering: Handling Growth with Postgres: 5 Tips From Instagram
As we’ve scaled Instagram to an ever-growing number of active users, Postgres has continued to be our solid foundation and the canonical data storage for most of the data created by our users. While less than a year ago, we blogged about how we “stored a lot of data” at Instagram at 90 likes per…
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Instagram Engineering: Sharding & IDs at Instagram
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of…
Remember: Life could’ve been worse if you were born a t-rex.
Just don’t.
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The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: Pub/sub with MongoDB
There are plenty of existing messaging systems out there (Redis, AMQP, ØMQ, etc.) but I’ve recently found MongoDB to be a very compelling alternative, especially if you’re already running MongoDB somewhere in your setup. Using MongoDB’s capped collections and tailable cursors we can build a…
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
― Jessica Mitford
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