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minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoNo, it’s not. It was rewritten in Facebook’s version of PHP when they bought them.
minus-squarefeddylemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoHere’s a blog post from meta, they introduced immortal objects to python to help with their Instagram scaling. https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/15/developer-tools/immortal-objects-for-python-instagram-meta/
minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoHuh, TIL, I didn’t realize they kept the gateway servers in Python.
No, it’s not. It was rewritten in Facebook’s version of PHP when they bought them.
Here’s a blog post from meta, they introduced immortal objects to python to help with their Instagram scaling.
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/15/developer-tools/immortal-objects-for-python-instagram-meta/
Huh, TIL, I didn’t realize they kept the gateway servers in Python.