They had a fairly popular post on the subject a while back: http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views http://blog.disqus.c

They had a fairly popular post on the subject a while back: http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views http://blog.disqus.com/post/62187806135/scaling-django-to-8-... In short, since they were not really pushing volume with Python, just feeding data to Varnish, throughput wasn't such a big deal.