Insagram: Behind every billion dollar company there is a Linux :)

By Prakash / 11-Apr-2012

The recently acquired Instagram is powered by Ubuntu! Instagram was recently acquired by Facebook for $1 Billion. Its a 13 people company almost all of them in their 20s and just 2 years old.

It is not just Ubuntu, the site is completely built on Open Source: Apache Solr, PostgreSQL, Redis and Django.

Read more on the technology underneath.

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1 thought on “Insagram: Behind every billion dollar company there is a Linux :)”

Kanti
11-Apr-2012 at 7:26 pm

Hi Prakash,

Thanks for sharing.The setup details are pretty nice and involve lot of free software tools.
I am still wondering what caused facebook to buy them.The speculations are abound.

Kanti

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