Instagram scaling - repost

Instagram Architecture: 14 Million Users, Terabytes Of Photos, 100s Of Instances, Dozens Of Technologies

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/6/instagram-architecture-14-million-users-terabytes-of-photos.html

Mupd8 – The @WalmartLabs Real-time Platform

The @WalmartLabs Mupd8 platform has already supported more than a dozen sophisticated stream applications processing over 300 million status updates per day, gathering real-time information on our product taxonomy. Learn more about our experience (see our VLDB 2012 paper) and check out the newest version, available under the Apache License 2.0, for yourself at http://github.com/walmartlabs/mupd8. Get started on your application with "Starting a New Application in MUPD8," available in the Mupd8 source tree and http://walmartlabs.github.com/mupd8/quickstart.html.

http://walmartlabs.blogspot.com/2012/09/mupd8-walmartlabs-real-time-platform.html

How Disney built a big data platform on a startup budget

In order to “remove the excuses” for business users not loading their data into the system, they just need to point the custom-built user interface at their files. (Disney’s platform is growing at 5TB a day, and there are still many other types of data it needs to house, Jacob said.) Because they’ve built wrappers around the technology, Jacob’s team doesn’t talk about Hadoop and MongoDB to internal users, only about analytics and queries. 

http://gigaom.com/data/how-disney-built-a-big-data-platform-on-a-startup-budget/

How Equifax is using Big Data

It maintains information about people who share the same phone number or address, "non-obvious" relationships between individuals, loans for dental work, magazine subscriptions, rental history, real estate assets, investment wealth, retail purchasing, the type of federal tax return someone files, marital status, employment, utility payments, cable TV accounts, criminal records, debt-to-income ratios, changes of address, motor vehicle files, post office boxes, inferences about someone's capacity to pay bills, predictions about someone's propensity to pay, links to past and potential fraud crimes--and more.

 [Source: Equifax Eyes Are Watching You--Big Data Means Big Brother]