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Final Thoughts
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Now is a good time to revisit that old "Django doesn't scale" myth. What do you
think? If you remember in the introduction we said it is either completely true
or patently false depending on your perspective.

It's true that firing up a site with ``manage.py runserver`` and SQLite on a
small cloud server isn't going to get you very far.

On the other hand, you've now seen the server stack we've used to build sites
that handle millions of page views per day without breaking a sweat. It's the
same (or very similar) to the biggest Django sites online today. In fact, you
now know more about building and deploying scalable, high performance Django
sites than the founding members of Instagram when they started. Back in 2012
when they were a team of three supporting the Django infrastructure
for *14+ million* users, they had this to say on their engineering blog:

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    Our core principles when choosing a system are:

        * Keep it very simple
        * Don't re-invent the wheel
        * Go with proven and solid technologies when you can\ [#]_

We couldn't agree more. So as you continue on your Django journey, don't forget what got you here.
Simplicity is the guiding philosophy.

.. [#] http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of

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