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apu on May 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Instragram

On slides 61-69, it seems to suggest that they were storing their photos directly in the database. Is this correct? It seems rather inefficient to do this, rather than storing the images in the filesystem.

seanmccann on May 2, 2012 [–]

No, photos are stored on S3. Only photo meta data is stored in the db.

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