I have met some members of Instagram's engineering team at Python conferences. They also run a dedicated engineering blog (https://engineering.instagram.com ht

I have met some members of Instagram's engineering team at Python conferences. They also run a dedicated engineering blog (https://engineering.instagram.com https://engineering.instagram.com). Despite the fact that they use an old version of Django, and the product has not exactly changed drastically since it became popular, they don't seem jaded. Sometimes it's fun to build your own version of something regardless of what exists in the rest of the world. I'm sure nuances will become more prominent in time.