Keynote - Database Infrastructure at Instagram Scale
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Instagram runs Apache Cassandra on several thousand servers and peaks at tens of millions QPS, backed by a custom storage engine. A central storage API gateway mediates all app traffic, enabling daily continuous deployment, canarying, and production shadowing to validate changes. Automated load tests ramp traffic against single hosts and whole data centers, weekly drain exercises verify resilience, and a per-user geo‑replication strategy migrates data between US and EU to cut replica count and latency.
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