Making Instapaper

medium.com/making-instapaper · Company blog · on HN since 2015

Making Instapaper is the engineering blog of the Instapaper read-later service, covering outages, search and browser bookmarklets.

What HN saysHN links it for the post-mortem of an Instapaper outage and for the "Bookmarklets are Dead" post about content security policy limits.
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What HN people wrote when they linked it

d2wa · 2019-02-25
Bookmarklets are Dead… …we just don’t know it yet. https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb62…
bhouston · 2017-02-10
Which DB at AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ Also shouldn't AWS warn them that this was about to happen? Edit 1: DynamoDB says: "There is no practical limit on a table's size. Tables are unconstrained in terms of the number of items or the number of bytes." The SQL databases say this: "The Amazon Aurora engine will automatically grow the size of your database volume as your database storage needs grow, up to a maximum of 64 TB or a maximum you define. The MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and PostgreSQL engines allow you to provision up to 6 TB of storage on-the-fly with zero downtime." So they either hit 64TB or 6TB of data I assume? EDIT 2: According to this they are MySQL based: https://medium.com/making-instapaper/rebuilding-instapaper-search-7fae…
grflynn · 2015-06-15
Bookmarklets are on the way out https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb62… Also see: content security policy (CSP)

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