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Re:Flask 0.11 Released by lrem on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:14AM (#11796615)
But it supports that they do use Flask.

> Presently, the API does over 12 billion requests per day, all in Flask.

Wow, that is 138kqps. Not something that would strike me as your typical Python workload.

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Re:Flask 0.11 Released by ubernostrum on Sunday May 29, 2016 @05:56PM (#11798416)
There are lots of those lying around.

I don't know if it still is, but when I was at Mozilla the service that every instance of Firefox around the world hits to do the version/extension-compatibility checks was backed by Django, and was at something like 15k req/s served. Firefox has gained some market share in the four-ish years since I got that number, so probably larger now.

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Re:Flask 0.11 Released by nly on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:55AM (#11796774)
Whacking great big CDNs in front of your infra will do that.
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Re:Flask 0.11 Released by lrem on Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:08PM (#11796835)
What exactly a CDN can do to increase the qps throughput of your backend? I thought it's used to reduce it...
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