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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 l

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:80/ 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.

kamaal 7y ago
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.
- Stevvo 7y ago
  Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.