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Day 5: Instagram’s Zero-Downtime Sharding Welcome to Tech Slay or Tech Fail — diving into jaw-dropping wins and epic fails in tech. Instagram implemented horizontal PostgreSQL sharding, using a custom PL/pgSQL next_id function combining timestamp, shard ID, and sequence bits, enabling live scaling of their database with no downtime. TECH SLAY [keywords: instagram, database sharding, PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL, next_id, horizontal scaling, zero downtime, multi-tenant infra, backend slay, tech slay]

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This post was published on 12th June, 2025 by Rhythm on her Instagram handle "@techuila_ (Techuila)". Rhythm has total 1.4K followers on Instagram and has a total of 74 post.This post has received 133 Likes which are lower than the average likes that Rhythm gets. Rhythm receives an average engagement rate of 26.17% per post on Instagram. This post has received 12 comments which are lower than the average comments that Rhythm gets. Overall the engagement rate for this post was lower than the average for the profile.