So has Instagram...

[diogobaeder]

... just been acquired by Facebook? And it uses Django?

The feeling I'm having today is not of surprise; for a lot of Django users and developers, it's no news that this framework can handle huge traffic and highly-demanding scalable systems. But the feeling I have is of deep happiness for being a small part of such a big and awesome community that you built.

Therefore, I thank you all for keeping evolving this great framework along with its community, and hope that it keeps being my favorite MVC for many years to come. :-)

Cheers!

Diogo

[shacker]

On Monday, April 9, 2012 10:03:57 PM UTC-7, diogobaeder wrote:

... just been acquired by Facebook? And it uses Django?

Indeed. We can only hope that Instagram will stay on Django under Facebook's care, though I won't be surprised if it's eventually subsumed into their PHP soup.  

But speaking of giving thanks, I'd like to do that too. After working mostly in Django over the past five years, I recently switched jobs into a Java shop running a "minor" framework, and came face to face with how much complexity it takes to build complex systems without something like Django working for you behind the scenes. It really is shocking to see the contortions some institutions go through to get things done that Django and Rails people now consider almost trivial. So here's a huge helping of thanks to all of the work the Django developers and contributors have put into it over the years, for all of the efficiencies and pleasantness we all have enjoyed on account of it. Your work is deeply appreciated.

./s

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Folks. this is pretty far off-topic; let's take M&A discussions elsewhere please.

Jacob

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