What is Reddit's technology stack?
Products that make up Reddit’s tech stack include:
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Apache Cassandra, Babel, Backbone,js, Bootstrap, Crowdin, Flask, GitHub, Invision, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Python, RabbitMQ, Transifex, Underscore.js, Blogger, CloudFlare, DigiCert, Gandi SSL, Gunicorn, HAProxy, nginx, Pingdom, Pixalate, reCAPTCHA, and StatusPage.
Additionally, here’s a list of other software products that Reddit is using internally:
- Marketing: AdRoll, BuySellAds, Embedly, SendGrid,
- Sales and BD: Fileboard, Insightly, Typeform
- Customer Support: Zendesk
- Product and Design: iDoneThis, Marvel, SketchDeck
- Analytics: Chartio, Google Analytics
- HR: Culture Amp, Greenhouse, Lattice, Simppler
- Finance and Accounting: Coinbase Merchants, Expensify, Stripe
- Productivity: Asana, Dropbox, Envoy, Slack
For a complete list of software used by Reddit, check out: Reddit's Stack | Siftery
(Disclaimer: The above data was pulled from Siftery and has been verified by individuals working at Reddit)
More info on their technologies can also be found straight from Reddit here: http://code.reddit.com/wiki/FAQ#...
https://github.com/reddit/reddit
After a quick skim:
Python
Memcached
Postgres for most data
Cassandra for votes
What I found most interesting was that they apparently use Postgres as a graph database:
https://github.com/reddit/reddit...
They have things, data tied to those things, and relations between things.
Web framework : Pylons since 2009.
Previously: (custom?) Closure to start, then moved to web.py, which was created by Aaron Swartz.
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