[tomnipotent]

Moved off Django to Flask.

https://www.quora.com/What-challenges-has-Pinterest-encounte...

[dempseye]

That page does not support the statement that they moved off Django to Flask.

[tomnipotent]

It further links to this post:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-stack-behind-Pi...

> They started with Django but moved out of Django and currently use 'home grown framework on top of Flask'.

[lrem]

But it supports that they do use Flask.

> Presently, the API does over 12 billion requests per day, all in Flask.

Wow, that is 138kqps. Not something that would strike me as your typical Python workload.

[ubernostrum]

There are lots of those lying around.

I don't know if it still is, but when I was at Mozilla the service that every instance of Firefox around the world hits to do the version/extension-compatibility checks was backed by Django, and was at something like 15k req/s served. Firefox has gained some market share in the four-ish years since I got that number, so probably larger now.

[nly]

Whacking great big CDNs in front of your infra will do that.

[lrem]

What exactly a CDN can do to increase the qps throughput of your backend? I thought it's used to reduce it...