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by lrem 3677 days ago
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.

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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.

Whacking great big CDNs in front of your infra will do that.
What exactly a CDN can do to increase the qps throughput of your backend? I thought it's used to reduce it...