Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > TheFlyingDutchman asked of someone: > > Would you know what technique the custom web server uses > > to invoke a C++ app > > No, I expect he would not know that. I can tell you > that GWS is just for Google, and anyone else is almost > certainly better off with Apache.
Or lighttpd, like YouTube (cfr <http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/PoweredByLighttpd>). > How does Google use Python? As their scripting-language > of choice. A fine choice, but just a tiny little piece. > > Maybe Alex will disagree with me. In my short time at > Google, I was uber-nobody. YouTube (one of Google's most valuable properties) is essentially all-Python (except for open-source infrastructure components such as lighttpd). Also, at Google I'm specifically "Uber Tech Lead, Production Systems": while I can't discuss details, my main responsibilities relate to various software projects that are part of our "deep infrastructure", and our general philosophy there is "Python where we can, C++ where we must". Python is definitely not "just a tiny little piece" nor (by a long shot) used only for "scripting" tasks; if the mutant space-eating nanovirus should instantly stop the execution of all Python code, the powerful infrastructure that has been often described as "Google's secret weapon" would seize up. The internal web applications needed to restore things, btw, would seize up too; as I already said I can't give details of the ones I'm responsible for (used by Google's network specialists, reliability engineers, hardware technicians, etc), but Guido did manage to get permission to talk about his work, Mondrian (<http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/11/google-mondrian.html >) -- that's what we all use to review code, whatever language it's in, before it can be submitted to the Google codebase (code reviews are a mandatory step of development at Google). Internal web applications are the preferred way at Google to make any internal functionality available, of course. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
