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What besides reddit?

• 147 9y ago
  Reddit isn't powered by Django as far as I know. But Instagram is and I believe Pinterest was/is.
  • codefreakxff 9y ago
    Nov 2016 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-switched-our-template-rendering-engine-to-react-a799a3d540b0 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-switched-ou...
    • CCing 9y ago
      Backend is still django though
    • sthatipamala 9y ago
      The Pinterest web backend has some vestiges of Django for form validations and stuff, but IIRC it's mostly custom at this point.
• flunhat 9y ago
  Instagram is one, I'm sure there's others [1]. [1] https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-instagram-with-python-4976d078e366 https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-...
• Veratyr 9y ago
  Reddit is Pylons based. Instagram is Django though.
• dom0 9y ago
  Reddit uses Pylons iirc But see for yourself: https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
  • Steeeve 9y ago
    Interesting. Looking around because I thought it was ruby at one point, but it turns out it was originally written in Lisp. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit I don't know where I got that idea from.
  • agumonkey 9y ago
    And they blogged about moving to typescript for frontend at least
• wyc 9y ago
  Kept a small list here, including codebase changes made for scaling and references: https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/ https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/ Instagram, Disqus, Bitbucket, Pinterest. Apologies in advanced for any marketing copies you don't want to read. The information is there.
• brynedwards 9y ago
  There is a list at the bottom of this page: https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/ https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/ Disqus Instagram Knight Foundation MacArthur Foundation Mozilla National Geographic Open Knowledge Foundation Pinterest Open Stack
  • yen223 9y ago
    If the answer here is to be believed, Pinterest has consciously moved away from Django. https://www.quora.com/Would-Pinterest-consider-Flask-in-place-of-Django-if-it-were-starting-today https://www.quora.com/Would-Pinterest-consider-Flask-in-plac...
    • coldtea 9y ago
      Yes, but that doesn't matter much, since they got to billion valuations just fine WITH Django.
  • mugsie 9y ago
    Only one of the main Open Stack projects uses Django - and it is a complete pain to work on as a result. Most of the projects in OpenStack use Flask or Pecan - or Falcon for one or two of the more performance sensitive APIs
    • gejjaxxita 9y ago
      Having used Django and that project (Horizon) extensively, I think that Horizon is not a pain to work on as a result of Django, it was just badly written.
• Jugurtha 9y ago
  I believe python.org, too, is built on Django[0]. Also, here's an interesting thread on Artima: "Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python!"[1] by Guido van van Rossum[sic]. It's 11 years old (a lot has changed since?), but interesting. [0]: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg https://github.com/python/pythondotorg [1]: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146149 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146149
• danso 9y ago
  PyCon's keynote this year was given by Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66XoCk79kjM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66XoCk79kjM