Tech Talk: What to do if Justin Bieber starts using your app
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In this video, Sarah speaks about Instagram's Justin Bieber problem, in which data retrieval from Justin Bieber's images would cause the site to slow to a crawl. Sarah walks through two approaches Instagram implemented to deal with large amounts of asynchronous data: denormalizing their like counter, and using a database queue. Sarah also explains when and how you can create a scalability plan for your own apps.
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