On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 02:26 -0800, simn_stv wrote: > i plan to build an application, a network based application that i > estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day > (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook' > or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which > gets pretty busy...
I've got apps running that handle *well* over 100,000 hits / process / day using Python - although some of the heavy lifting is off-loaded to C and MySql - obviously without actually looking at your requirements that doesn't mean much as I don't know how much work each hit requires. Regarding financial transactions - you'll almost certainly want to integrate with something that already has transactional support (sql etc) - so I expect that will bear the brunt of the load > so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make > python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and > the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh > God)) I've avoided integrating java with my python (I'm not a big fan of java) - but I've integrated quite a bit of C - it's fairly easy to do, and you can just port the inner loops if you see the need arise. > ...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be > the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and > efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned. I've heard that php can be well scaled (by compiling it to bytecode/C++) - but my preference would always be to python. Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
