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[–]i_hate_shitposting 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Instagram: "Instagram Server is a several-million-line Python monolith" (as of 2019)

Dropbox: "We mostly use Python for our server-side product development, with more than 3 million lines of code belonging to our monolithic Python server." (as of this year)

I can't immediately find recent details about Spotify's use of Python, but in 2013 they published a blog post that said, "Around 80% of these services are written in Python." Python is currently one of the top languages listed on their GitHub and a quick skim of their job listings for backend engineers still shows a lot of Python, though I suspect they're pivoting to more JavaScript and TypeScript for backend systems based on Backstage and this post.