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Check this list out, Running Python - Django [1][3][4]:

-Instagram[0]

-Pinterest

-Disqus

Disqus.com - Disqus serves over 3 billion page views, and more than 500 million unique visitors a month on it's Django stack. As far as we know we are the largest installation out there.

-Mozilla[2]

addons.mozilla.com and support.mozilla.com

250k+ add-ons, 150 million views per month, 500+ million api hits per day (firefox checking for updates!

-Justin.tv(they moved to Django from Rails)[3]

-NASA

-National Geographic

-Canonical

-Bitbucket.org

-Discovery Networks

-Intel, AMD, HP, IBM

-Lexis-Nexis

-The Library of Congress

-The New York Times

-Orbitz

-PBS

-Rdio: Huge traffic Radio site.

-VMWare

-Walt Disney

-The Washington Post.

-lanyrd.com

-OSQA Sites. OSQA is an Open Sourced similar copy of Stackoverflow, a QnA community. AFAIK some 5K sites are powered by OSQA Stack. OSQA is built on Django.

-Youtube, LinkedIN, Google, NetFlix, Amazon: Python Stacks.

-GMail, Google Calendar, AdSense, AdWords, Android MarketPlace to name a few of the heavy hitters from Google are on Python - Google App Engine.

[0]http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/how-to-scale-a-1-billion-st...

[1]http://jacobian.org/writing/django-community/django-communit...

[2]http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-s...

References-

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale

[4] http://www.quora.com/Django/What-is-the-highest-traffic-webs...




EDIT: I upvoted the post, and now it's no longer in gray. So, it was just one downvote.

Why the downvotes? Parent post is just pointing out sites which he/she knows to be using Python and/or Django, some of which are incorrect(Gmail?), or are giving the impression that they run on Python when only small sub-projects are using it(LinkedIn?, Amazon?). There are some mistakes, but on a whole, I don't see anything wrong with someone pointing out something relevant to the discussion, even if it involves bragging about something he is associated with.


You seem to exaggerate Python's use: gmail is mostly Java, like most of the otger Google apps, LinkedIn ain't using Python to my knowledge.


> Amazon

I would double check your sources on that one.




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