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by curioussavage 689 days ago
YouTube instagram and Dropbox definitely don’t scale thanks to python. They scale thanks to the massive infrastructure they built around some python code. Cdn caches etc. we all know this. And they could probably save money by migrating to a more performant and safe language. But they have money firehoses and household brand recognition so they don’t care.
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idf00 689 days ago
> YouTube instagram and Dropbox definitely don’t scale thanks to python

But python doesn't prevent them from scaling either ;)

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nl 689 days ago
> Cdn caches etc. we all know this.

No matter what language you use, you use CDNs and caches.

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benatkin 689 days ago
They could partly run Python, in which case it would be a better example of FastHTML scaling in this way. Some CDNs have Python edge functons: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/python/ https://aws.amazon.com/developer/application-security-perfor...

With Vercel and Netlify it's just TypeScript/JavaScript: https://vercel.com/docs/functions/edge-middleware https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/overview/

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