{"id":4094,"date":"2012-04-09T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2012-04-09T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:35:38","slug":"facebook-acquires-instagram-and-a-postgres-cluster-for-1billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/09\/facebook-acquires-instagram-and-a-postgres-cluster-for-1billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook acquires Instagram (and a Postgres cluster) for $1billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/instagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/instagram.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"instagram\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/instagram.png 250w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/instagram-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s big story is that <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/04\/09\/instagram-acquired-by-facebook-service-will-stay-up-and-running-as-is-for-now\/\">Facebook just acquired Instagram for $1 billion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Instagram is a hugely popular image sharing app &#8211; until recently only for iPhone. Last week they released an Android version, which caused many of my friends to finally start using it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But you know what&#8217;s an even bigger story? <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram-engineering.tumblr.com\/post\/10853187575\/sharding-ids-at-instagram\">Instagram runs Postgres<\/a>. And, their engineering team has been posting juicy tidbits about <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram-engineering.tumblr.com\/post\/20541814340\/keeping-instagram-up-with-over-a-million-new-users-in\">PGFouine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram-engineering.tumblr.com\/post\/13649370142\/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of\">pgbouncer<\/a> over the last year. <\/p>\n<p>I love that companies are succeeding with <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresql.org\">Postgres<\/a> in a huge way.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeing Postgres become the default technology choice for new tech companies. As those companies grow or are acquired, we&#8217;ll see Postgres becoming an important part of many more organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no coincidence that Bruce posted this morning about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/momjian.us\/main\/blogs\/pgblog\/2012.html#April_9_2012\">The New Postgres Era<\/a>&#8220;. The quality of the Postgres community&#8217;s software products is recognized, and the developers who use our software are succeeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big story is that <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/04\/09\/instagram-acquired-by-facebook-service-will-stay-up-and-running-as-is-for-now\/\">Facebook just acquired Instagram for $1 billion<\/a>.  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/09\/facebook-acquires-instagram-and-a-postgres-cluster-for-1billion\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[558,556,647,557],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgresql","tag-acquisition","tag-instagram","tag-postgres","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}