- How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem | WIRED
I’ve been there, the ID that will forever haunt me is 2017.
(categories: instagram performance scalability facebook denormalization databases ) - The Past and Future of Product Management — On Human-Centric Systems — Medium
Quote: "I believe that the future of product management rests upon our ability to embrace human complexity, in both the processes we implement to build products and the data we consult to understand customers. I believe that product management is a fundamentally supportive and facilitative role, not a “visionary” role. (No Steve Jobses need apply.) I believe that the distinction between “hard skills” and “soft skills” is largely counterproductive, and that the best product managers possess the c…
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Nice!
Very interesting that Instagram gives credit both to a move to Facebook data centers and a data architecture change for the fix to the Bieber problem.