On 5 Jan 2006, at 11:40, ChaosKCW wrote:
I of course want something better and django stands out. Its mostly
for
interactive apps, as opposed to static content, so my first questions
is can I do things like javascript and xmlhttprequest (ie AJAX ) in
django easily ? I am sure I can but thought it prudent to ask.
Absolutely. Django doesn't put any barriers in front of you
outputting XML or JSON or JavaScript instead of HTML, making Ajax
stuff really easy to do.
The other things were they gonna something to go on for speed and
scalability.
Is there any info out there ?
On scalability can it be clustered easily (as with websphere)?
Django scales using the "shared nothing" architecture - so you can
run multiple web servers talking to a single database server with
ease (and concentrate your efforts on scaling that database server).
Django performance is excellent - there aren't any official
benchmarks but I feel comfortable in stating that a server running
Django should be able to handle more requests than a server running
Rails or TurboGears (the Python interpreter is faster than Ruby, and
Django's template system is significantly faster than the one used by
TurboGears). That said, the bottleneck for most apps is the database
so these performance differences may not affect you in deployment
situations.
Django doesn't currently support more advanced scaling architectures
but features for supporting replicated databases are currently under
discussion - contributions of advice (and code) in this area are
welcome.
Hope that answers your questions,
Simon
