Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations
by sjtindell on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:59PM
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Instagram has one billion monthly users generating $7 billion a year. There are almost zero products on earth as successful.
Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations
by slt2021 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:21PM
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Just compare Instagram written in Python to Google Wave, Google+ or any other Google's social media, written in C++/Java :))))
Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations
by arinlen on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:52PM
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> Instagram has one billion monthly users generating $7 billion a year.
Doesn't Instagram serve mostly static content that's put together in an appealing way by mobile apps? I'd figure Instagram's CDN has far more impact than whatever Python code it's running somewhere in it's entrails.
Cargo cult approaches to tech stacks don't define quality.
Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations
by xboxnolifes on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:16PM
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The point is that it's still one project. You need to count the failures as well to rule out survivorship bias.
Re:Modern Python Performance Considerations
by jeremycarter on Thursday May 05, 2022 @05:23PM
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And you can put 7 billion of effort into tweaking your python application performance?
A few successful projects in the world did it. There's likely far more successful products that didn't use it.
The key metric along this line is how often each language allows success to some level and how often they fail (especially when due to the choice of language).
>should be lauded rather than scrutinized
One can do both at the same time.