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RedditCompany

Social news and community platform

4 things

GoSoftware Google

recommended

Due to this, we decided to move forward into modern and domain-specific Go microservices.

Reddit moves its comments backend from Python to Go (undated page) (undated page)

reddit.com ↗Wrong?

gRPCSoftware

recommended

This is the second installment on Reddit's migration to gRPC (from Apache Thrift).

Reddit migrates from Thrift to gRPC (undated page) (undated page)

reddit.com ↗Wrong?

Apache ThriftSoftware

mixed

We created a Protocol and Transport that transparently rewrites a Thrift call into the equivalent gRPC call.

Reddit migrates from Thrift to gRPC (undated page) (undated page)

reddit.com ↗Wrong?

PythonSoftware

disliked

By 2024, the legacy Python service had a history of reliability and performance issues.

Reddit moves its comments backend from Python to Go (undated page) (undated page)

reddit.com ↗Wrong?

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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