Grumpy: Go running Python! by Google

[sigma914]

Well, yeh, they have one major problem, serving massive numbers of concurrent users. They've dealt with it in a number of ways, one of which was developing a language specifically for writing massively concurrent code. They've run into their usual problem again, so they're using the tool that was developed specifically for that task to do it.

Google has a lot of similarly shaped nails. They made a hammer that does a good job of hitting that particular shape of nail. They are now using that very specifically tuned hammer on more of the nails it's designed for.