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At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework, which is written entirely in Python. We began using Python early on because of its simplicity, but we’ve had to do many hacks over the years to keep it simple as we’ve scaled. Last year we tried dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism (which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data), and gained 10% more capacity. However, as our engineering team and number of features have continued to ...