--- title: The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations description: Instagram's Suggested Posts feature is an example of an Information Retrieval system. The first step is to search for posts that a user may like from accounts... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations | daily.dev og:description: Instagram's Suggested Posts feature is an example of an Information Retrieval system. The first step is to search for posts that a user may like from accounts... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zxtSQZ8HC.png og:image:alt: The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations **[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 8 min read · 22 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Instagram's Suggested Posts feature is an example of an Information Retrieval system. The first step is to search for posts that a user may like from accounts the user isn’t following. This results in you finding more content you like, following more accounts and spending more time on Instagram. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#instagram](https://daily.dev/tags/instagram), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql), [#orchestration](https://daily.dev/tags/orchestration), [#snap](https://daily.dev/tags/snap), [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc"},"datePublished":"2022-08-19T00:05:11.452Z","dateModified":"2023-10-04T02:23:15.716Z","description":"Instagram's Suggested Posts feature is an example of an Information Retrieval system. The first step is to search for posts that a user may like from accounts...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e75b36318b922c9d2e87d3fe65de96a7","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e75b36318b922c9d2e87d3fe65de96a7","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Quastor Daily","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Quastor Daily","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/073e935e4893445ba562bf9e1ca38ec1","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-behind-instagram-s-recommendations-zxtsqz8hc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":22},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"aws,database,instagram,nosql,orchestration,snap,tech-news","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Quastor Daily","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quastor"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Engineering Behind Instagram's Recommendations"}]} ```