Introducing Immortal Objects for Python

Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism. At Meta, we use Python (Django) for our frontend server within Instagram. To handle parallelism, we rely on a multi-process architecture along with [...] Read More... The post Introducing Immortal Objects for Python appeared first on Engineering at Meta....

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