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# Posts by Matt Robenolt

[![Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views](https://blog.disqus.com/hubfs/60.png)](https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views)

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## [Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views](https://blog.disqus.com/scaling-django-to-8-billion-page-views)

 September 24, 2013 | [Matt Robenolt](https://blog.disqus.com/author/matt-robenolt)

 As we’re approaching 8 billion page views per month and 45k requests per second, we’ve learned a couple things about delivering comments to a lot of different people. Disqus is very well known for using Django for almost all of our web traffic, and that continues to be a thing today. As with any web framework, there are inherent trade-offs: rapid development vs performance, familiarity for new developers vs something custom, etc. Disqus likes to lean towards rapid development and familiarity over performance, and something fine tuned for our exact needs. 

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## [Trying out this Go thing...](https://blog.disqus.com/trying-out-this-go-thing)

 May 23, 2013 | [Matt Robenolt](https://blog.disqus.com/author/matt-robenolt)

 Last Thursday, May 16th, we shipped our first Go project into production. 

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