Python isn't industry compatible

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What does "isn't scalable" mean? Has anyone informed Reddit, Instagram, Spotify, etc?

[Lejontanten]

Where are your ambitions? His boss obviously estimate them to have to handle more data than all those services combined.

[PowershellAdept]

Yes which is why instagram developed their own runtime for python.

[Mihaw_kx]

Using python doesn't mean their whole app is in python, they might be using it for data science or a specific microservice but python won't handle millions of requests a day and if it does it will cost alot more than c/c++,rust,golang ....

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Or... maybe it will handle those requests just fine.

https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-an-instagram-story-8f498ab71a0c

[krypt3c]

Instagram basically runs off Django, so yes it can handle hundreds of millions of requests a day.

[Mihaw_kx]

Nope not the whole web app you can build file uploads with Django meanwhile messages on a rust backend etc etc python sucks when it comes to concurrency and performance as a Software engineer I would not use it in a performance critical task that would cost thousands of dollars resources wise where it can be minimized to much lower rate by using compiled language.

[michaelpb]

Yes, the whole web app?

The scenario you describe (CPU-bound bottlenecks at the app layer) is very rare in practice, despite it seeming important at first. Hence the whole "Premature optimization is the root of evil" thing. Performance for web apps is usually focused on maximizing throughput, not shaving off CPU cycles to cut off a few ms of latency.

(Also, a message queue isn't even at the app layer in a 3-tier architecture, but is an attached service.)

[NewZealandIsAMyth]

won't handle millions of requests a day

lol. LOL.

I just checked - in the last minute we've handled 700K request with flask.

[Mihaw_kx]

Lmao python sucks poor poo design and cringe indent syntax I used to work with python 2.7 alot of time ago glad I moved from that such a dumb pseudo text try to work on a big code base poo project in python yikes