Python at Scale: Strict ModulesWelcome to the third post in our series on Python at scale at Instagram! As we mentioned in the first post in the series, Instagram Server…Carl Meyer·Added Oct 17, 2019·9 min readCarl Meyer·Added Oct 17, 2019·9 min read
Types for Python HTTP APIs: An Instagram StoryAnd we’re back! As we mentioned in the first part of our blog post series, Instagram Server is a Python monolith with several million…Anirudh Padmarao·Added Sep 13, 2019·8 min readAnirudh Padmarao·Added Sep 13, 2019·8 min read
Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram StoryHow Instagram develops and uses linting and codemod tools based on LibCST to maintain a modern codebase at scale.Benjamin Woodruff·Added Aug 15, 2019·13 min readBenjamin Woodruff·Added Aug 15, 2019·13 min read
Adaptive process and memory management for Python web serversAt Instagram, process and memory management is a frequent point of consideration in building large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant…Qi Zhou·Added Jul 15, 2019·5 min readQi Zhou·Added Jul 15, 2019·5 min read
Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collectionAt Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using…Instagram Engineering·Added Dec 20, 2017·4 min readInstagram Engineering·Added Dec 20, 2017·4 min read
Let your code type-hint itself: introducing open source MonkeyTypeToday we are excited to announce we’re open-sourcing MonkeyType, our tool for automatically adding type annotations to your Python 3 code…Instagram Engineering·Added Dec 14, 2017·4 min readInstagram Engineering·Added Dec 14, 2017·4 min read
Profiling CPython at InstagramInstagram employs Python in one of the world’s largest settings, using it to implement the “business logic” needed to serve 800 million…Instagram Engineering·Added Nov 17, 2017·6 min readInstagram Engineering·Added Nov 17, 2017·6 min read
Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at InstagramBy dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run…Instagram Engineering·Added Jan 17, 2017·8 min readInstagram Engineering·Added Jan 17, 2017·8 min read
Video: Running Instagram at @Scale 2016Instagram is one of the most popular social apps and has more than 500M monthly active users. We will talk about how Instagram was able to…Instagram Engineering·Added Oct 10, 2016·1 min readInstagram Engineering·Added Oct 10, 2016·1 min read
Video: Running Instagram at @Scale 2016Instagram is one of the most popular social apps and has more than 500M monthly active users. We will talk about how Instagram was able to…Alex Hollander·Added Sep 18, 2016·1 min readAlex Hollander·Added Sep 18, 2016·1 min read
