Cross Continent Infrastructure Scaling at Instagram

Explore cross-continent infrastructure scaling challenges and solutions at Instagram in this 21-minute conference talk from SREcon19 Asia/Pacific. Discover how the company deployed stateful services globally, addressing speed of light limitations for a growing international user base. Learn about Facebook's data center infrastructure, Cassandra implementation, and strategies for partitioning and disaster readiness. Gain insights into the tradeoffs involved in US data center splits, Cassandra partitioning, and latency considerations when scaling services across oceans.