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It is python. They linked a presentation[1] and a talk about the bot.

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/majek04/gatelogic-somewhat-functiona...

It's interesting. I would have expected them to use rather something low latency/high performance like c++ or erlang given their scale and performance criticality.

This is something that only keeps track of user settings data and consequently configures the endpoints given that data.

It has got nothing to do with packet filtering per se.

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