Recommend Update on Disqus: It's Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python (Email)

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Our last article on Disqus: How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second And Less Than .2 Seconds Latency, was a little out of date, but the folks at Disqus have been busy implementing, not talking, so we don't know a lot about what they are doing now, but we do have a short update in C1MM and NGINX by John Watson and an article Trying out this Go thing.

So Disqus has grown a bit:

  • 1.3 billion unique visitors
  • 10 billion page views
  • 500 million users engaged in discussions
  • 3 million communities
  • 25 million comments

They are still all about realtime, but Go replaced Python in their Realtime system:


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