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Re:Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram by cdnsteve on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:01AM (#9771598)
Interesting, still at that scale: "most of our backend logic lives in Django"
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Re:Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram by chrisacree on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:05AM (#9772070)
I see comments like this, and wonder why that's strange. Is there a comprehensive list of reasons Django (or Rails, or whatever) won't scale well?

What do these companies switch to? Or is it more that things just become a mixed basket of specialized tech for each task in the stack?

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Re:Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram by segmondy on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:42PM (#9773174)
Every often, we see folks that started with python, php, or ruby, deciding that the language is their limit, and they move to "cooler" stuff like Scala, Go, Clojure, etc.
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