--- title: "QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months" url: https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-meta-used-monolithic-architecture-to-ship-threads-in-only-five-months-xvwlwqtey source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/04/meta-threads-instagram-5-months/ type: article source: "InfoQ" published: 2024-04-09T07:09:29.946Z updated: 2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z tags: ["instagram", "monolith", "technical-debt"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta used Instagram's monolithic architecture to quickly create a new text-first microblogging service called Threads. The service gained unprecedented adoption with 10 million downloads on the first day and 100 million in the first five days. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#instagram](https://daily.dev/tags/instagram), [#monolith](https://daily.dev/tags/monolith), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/qcon-london-meta-used-monolithic-architecture-to-ship-threads-in-only-five-months-xvwlwqtey)