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stollercyrus on Dec 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Instacart Built Its On-Demand Grocery Delivery...

This is thorough and well done.

I'm curious why/how Instacart uses both python and ruby for their logistics. Seems like they could just use one.

hayksaakian on Dec 29, 2014 [–]

in the article it mentions how they use python to generate logistics plans, and ruby to serve it to the admin

see/ctrl+f:

> B: The data science is what's all in Python, and the application infrastructure is still Ruby.

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