Making Instapaper is the engineering blog of the Instapaper read-later service, covering outages, search and browser bookmarklets.
HN links it for the post-mortem of an Instapaper outage and for the "Bookmarklets are Dead" post about content security policy limits.
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-7fae1340699e#.svigv748s
Indeed. The "should not" in the spec is a big loophole.
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23357
https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb626
https://blog.github.com/2013-04-19-content-security-policy/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7607605/does-content-security-policy-block-bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are on the way out
https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb626
Also see: content security policy (CSP)
This is probably the post I'm thinking of:
https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb626
https://archive.ph/hDumY
Bookmarklets are Dead… …we just don’t know it yet.
https://medium.com/making-instapaper/bookmarklets-are-dead-d470d4bbb626
Post-mortem: https://medium.com/making-instapaper/instapaper-outage-cause-recovery-3c32a7e9cc5f#.g7jy6jtdg