>The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.
So they, in fact, had already built out Instagram as a monolithic service based platform and essentially forked it, tweaked it, tested it, and shipped.
The title of the article is highly misleading, suggesting they shipped from 0 to full platform in 5 months explicitly due to the fact they were using a monolithic architecture as opposed to a microservice based one.
So they, in fact, had already built out Instagram as a monolithic service based platform and essentially forked it, tweaked it, tested it, and shipped.
The title of the article is highly misleading, suggesting they shipped from 0 to full platform in 5 months explicitly due to the fact they were using a monolithic architecture as opposed to a microservice based one.