Comment on Automating Datacenter Operations at DropboxparentComments−jabl7yA theory based on the article is it seems Pirlo may be written in Python (going off the fact that is leverages SQLAlchemy)Sounds like a reasonable guess.which is interesting given most providers are writing new infrastructure code largely in GoDropbox apparently uses Go a lot, see e.g. https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/go-reliability-and-durabili...They also use Rust for some performance-critical stuff, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948That being said, AFAIK originally Dropbox was written mostly in python. Probably there's still lots of that left.−talonx7yThis is also borne out by the fact that they mention Celery.
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Sounds like a reasonable guess.
Dropbox apparently uses Go a lot, see e.g. https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/go-reliability-and-durabili...
They also use Rust for some performance-critical stuff, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282948
That being said, AFAIK originally Dropbox was written mostly in python. Probably there's still lots of that left.
This is also borne out by the fact that they mention Celery.