> Den 3. feb. 2016 kl. 22.30 skrev Joshua Pokotilow <jpokoti...@gmail.com>: > > At the startup where I work, we've written a lot of our server code in > Django. So far, we've adopted a "build it fast" mentality, so we invested > very little time in optimizing our code. A small amount of load testing has > revealed our codebase / infrastructure as it stands today needs to run faster > and support more users. > > We recently hired some new engineers who are extremely skeptical that we > should optimize our existing code.
I was in a startup like that. We *had* a working solution, and we *had* customers. Not enough to pay our salaries, but enough to keep us and our investors hopeful. Someone decided we needed a rewrite, because Django, because blog posts, because WebScale(TM), because in one year we might have 1000-fold users if our wildest startup dreams came true. So we started to rewrite. It was supposed to take one month. Our working, legacy solution started to deteriorate because we were busy rewriting. Two months. Bugs reports piled up in the tracker, but we didn't care because the rewrite was just around the corner and would solve everything, and we couldn't possibly work on two systems at the same time. Some customers left, but it was okay because our WebScale solution would make us filthy rich. Three months. Everyone was overworked, tired and the WebScale solution was still just around the corner... Four months, and our investors decided we were not part of the 1%. In short, don't rewrite. Refactor. And know *exactly* why you are refactoring. As in, "We have profiled, discussed architecture, hardware, algorithms, etc, etc. The GIL is killing us and Guido doesn't care", not "Django doesn't scale". The year "monolithic" is an argument in itself is the year of the HURD desktop. Except if you're programming in VBScript. Then by all means, rewrite. Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/DC23E544-1108-40A5-821D-681E498DBEAC%40cederstrand.dk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
