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No tweaks mentioned at all inside. The title is wrong. Kinda weird to start a new project that needs to scale with Python though (I use Python most of the time).


IG is built in Python (which is why this is also) and it seems to scale fine.


It seems they are re-purposing Instagram's backend for this. And Instagram's backend is Python


"JIT, lazy-loaded modules, pre-compiled static modules, and a bunch of other interesting tweaks against vanilla Python 3.10"


That is just CPython fork from instagram https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder/


The fork is where the tweaks live.


As far as I can tell from my prior experience of working at Insta is that all the work is done by various services written in C++/hack. Python/Cinder would be just interface layer routing the incoming request/response from/to client.




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