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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Deimorz on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:16AM (#21013491)
That was in December 2005, less than 6 months after the site launched. Reddit was tiny and didn't even have subreddits or comments yet. This is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com...

The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by kamaal on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:54AM (#21013936)
Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now?

Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Stevvo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:34AM (#21014417)
Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.
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