Best of Instagram — 2024

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   Community Picks·2y

   How Instagram Scaled to 2.5 Billion Users

   Learn how Instagram scaled its infrastructure to handle 2.5 billion users. Discover the problems faced during hypergrowth and the technologies used to handle scalability.

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   Hacker News·2y

   AI Studio

   AI Studio allows users to create custom AI characters for Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp in the US. Content creators can build AIs to engage their audience by mimicking their tone and expressions. The platform provides a step-by-step guide, offering full customization and control over the AI's behavior. It also supports the latest Generative AI capabilities, making it easy for anyone to craft conversational AIs based on personal interests.

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   Quastor Daily·2y

   The Engineering behind Instagram's Recommendation Algorithm

   The post discusses the engineering behind Instagram's recommendation algorithm, including the candidate generation/retrieval phase, the use of Two Tower Neural Network models, and the ranking stages in the recommendation system.

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   Community Picks·2y

   tspeterkim/insta-chat

   A simple Instagram chat automation tool made with Google Sheets, using 60 lines of JavaScript for the frontend and 60 lines of Python for the backend. It allows automatic replies to comments containing specific keywords.

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   Watercooler·2y

   As a developer do you use Instagram?

   Developers discuss their usage of Instagram and the benefits it provides.

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   Dev Squad·2y

   Instagram Architecture - Best Explained Social Media App

   Instagram, with over 2 billion users, relies on a robust and scalable architecture, incorporating microservices for modular development and a global CDN for fast content delivery. Its tech stack includes React, GraphQL, Swift, Kotlin for frontend, and Django, Gunicorn, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Apache Kafka, Spark, Presto, and Scuba for backend and data processing. DevOps utilizes Kubernetes, Docker, ELK Stack, and Prometheus.

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   Post Ai·1y

   AI Insta Reel News Posting Node Server

   An automated Node.js server has been developed that uses AI to generate and post daily news Instagram reels. This project aims to streamline content creation and distribution across multiple platforms by curating the latest news and updating Instagram daily with minimal effort.

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   TechLinked·2y

   Apple’s AI Stole YouTube Videos

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   Collections·2y

   Instagram Shifts to Views as Primary Metric for Content Performance Across All Formats

   Instagram has shifted to using 'views' as the primary metric for measuring content performance across all formats, including Reels, Stories, and photos. This change aims to provide a more comprehensive measure of content interaction and aligns with Meta's broader focus on views. Instagram's chief, Adam Mosseri, emphasizes the importance of 'views' and 'sends per reach' for understanding content performance, helping creators to monitor and analyze engagement more effectively.

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