14Oct 2010
min.us technical trivia
We’re extremely happy with the initial feedback from the community as it went way beyond our expectations, so thank you! Please keep your suggestions coming as we work towards making minus better and more stable.
Over the next few days we’ll be adding many more features to minus along with correcting existing bugs. However I’d just like to take the time and talk a little bit about the minus platform and infrastructure.
In the front, min.us is written with pure javascript with no flash of any kind for Firefox 3.6+, Google Chrome, Safari on Mac and IE9 (we felt this would give the snappiest response for our users). For unsupported browsers, we fall back to flash to provide certain functionality for uploading and sharing.
On the server side, min.us is deployed on Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud. We use the Elastic Block Service to store our database for high availability, the S3 service to store image files with fault tolerance and elasticity.
Software-wise, our code is written in Python and built on a Django, MySql, Memcached, and Ubuntu stack.
There will be many more exciting things to come and we will be sure to keep everyone posted. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us!
- Carl & John
Posted on Thursday October 14 2010 in General by John Xie 11 Comments
Great site guys!
I’m going to start using this more and more for creating quick and fast image gallery’s.
Question about your database, are you using amazon RDS or are you using mysql on an EC2 instance and then having it replicate the data to a slave?
John
October 15th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Thanks ! Please do share and spread the word.
We’re currently using MySQL on an EC2 instance but it could change as we grow
Great work buddies…
I love your work.
I have a question, can we host an image here and call it on a website like a banner or something. I mean, can i embed images?
John Xie
October 20th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Yes you may. Sorry for the late reply!
Murshid Ahmed
October 20th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
wow, it is kinda too late
John Xie
October 20th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
just noticed , sorry
I love the simplicity of Min.us!
Thanks a bunch, appreciate the positive feedback
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Which language was used to develop Minus mobile applications?
John Xie
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:33 am
The mobile apps are built on top of the iOS SDK and Android SDK utilizing the Minus API found here: http://minus.com/pages/api