https://github.com/jreese/aiomultiprocess https://github.com/jreese/aiomultiprocess The above is suffecient at FB scale for fairly intensive processing. Python

https://github.com/jreese/aiomultiprocess https://github.com/jreese/aiomultiprocess The above is suffecient at FB scale for fairly intensive processing. Python is also sufficient for running quite a good bit of Instagram. I know some startups like to deploy over-engineered solutions but in reality Python is sufficient in many use-cases. You can always drop down to Cython if you have some hot path you need to optimize. (or Rust).