Instagram, as we all know, is amongst the most used social media sites. If you are reading this post, you perhaps have an account yourself. It is easy to get devoured into the senseless scrolling when you are on Instagram, most especially if you are following lots of accounts, which post videos and photographs of lovely animals and stuff. But did you know what technology does Instagram use? Get to know about that and more, read on to this article!

A Short History

Instagram actually came from a mobile application known as Burbn. This app was developed by Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom in San Francisco. Since they thought that the said application was just like the other applications developed at that period, they decided to just focus on the development of apps that focus mainly on communication through images.

They removed all of the features from Burbn and keep the image uploading, liking, and commenting. They then named the app Instagram. As its name implies, the app lets its users send a sort of instant telegram. The developers say that it took them about 8 weeks to finish building Instagram.

The app was launched for people to use on October 6th of 2010. But that's just for the iOS users. For those who use Android OS, it was just in April 2012 when they get to try the application. Since then, it has grown instantaneously. It even became the number one photography application.  In today's day and time, Instagram has about over 600 million active users and is still briskly increasing.

Enough for its history, let us now move on to the technology of your favorite photography app!

Technology Behind Instagram

Instagram is a free social networking and photo-sharing mobile application, which functions the best with smartphones. The app lets users take, edit, and share various photos or videos. A user is also provided with manifold filters if they want to change the way their media looks like. 

The posts you make on Instagram can be liked by those who follow you. If you have only a few followers and want to get some more in legit and reliable way, try Famoid. Generally, Famoid is a market where you can purchase followers and/or likes. They do not send fake users to you -they only use completely active, and all real, organic users.

The developers of the applications credit a lot of their success in selecting their tools sensibly by way of following its main principles -going with the solid and proven technologies, not reinventing the wheel, and keeping it simple.

The engineering blog of Instagram drawn its development stack. This includes a set of IDEs, libraries, languages, as well as tools that are used in developing an app. They use a combination of tried-and-true technologies with more front-line tools, conjoining SQL databases with the NoSQL tools, like Redis and selecting to host its Ubuntu servers in the cloud of Amazon. There are also some ways that Instagram uses AI and big data to improve their services.

With the technology it uses, there is no denying that Instagram is amongst the best and most used social media applications all over the world.It makes communicating to various people much easier and more fun!

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