Case Study
Instacart Supports Growth Demands with Full-Stack Monitoring
page 1 www.solarwinds.com/cloud THE INSTACART STACK • Rails, Postgres, Ubuntu • Amazon EC2 • Primary app written in Ruby on Rails connected to multiple Postgres databases with multiple replicas hosted in RDS • ElastiCache and both Memcached and Redis for caching and queuing • RabbitMQ as an RPC and queuing mechanism • React and a custom CSS framework • Some ancillary apps that do machine learning and job assignments and a logistics platform, all written in Python INSTACART SUPPORTS GROWTH DEMANDS WITH FULL-STACK MONITORING About Instacart Instacart is an Internet-based grocery delivery service currently operating in 17 U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. Forbes named Instacart the Most Promising Company of 2015, citing its incredible growth since its 2012 inception. Instac