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Python, Pylons, Nginx и еще раз Python, и многое другое. Кому как, а мне очень интересно поглядеть под капот нетривиального сайта, поглядеть на применяемые решения и что из этого получилось.

They also looked at C#, Java, and Scala. Discounting Mono, C# would be a choice of more than just the language. It would require them to build on-top of a Microsoft stack. Python won over Java because it is more expressive and quicker to write code than Java. Scala was too new. Adam mentions speed and the lack of type-checking as drawbacks with Python, but they both already knew the language reasonably well. Where Python lacks speed for performance critical backend components, they opt to write them in C++. They saw Ruby as a close match to Python, but their experience with Python and lack of experience in Ruby, made Python the winner. Python 2.6, to be precise.

philwhln.com/quoras-technology-examined

Многабукаф в статье, но оно стоит прочтения. А еще там полно сцылок на не менее интересные статьи. Вмемориз.

Quora is a great example of a modern tech start-up. They are very small team who understand the technologies they are using very well. They have made considered choices in the technology they have selected and have a good vision of which components would be better written from scratch.