On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, <harry.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > I will be designing a REST based API for a cross-platform back end that > will serve both desktop Facebook users as well as mobile users. It will > handle operations such as user creation, retrieval of user and other data, > payment verification and in the case of the desktop side, handle the > html/css template customization. The database back end is MySQL and I do > need a cache system. > > Currently we were using Codeigniter (PHP) for our codebase but as CI seems > on the way out, I do not wish to start a new project based on it. I was > looking at Laravel for PHP, but, Python is very attractive to me as a > language and since the introduction of WSGI, I am confident it can make a > difference in performance and code maintainability over PHP while being > able to plug in to our dedicated server infrastructure. > > Since I am not experienced with Python frameworks (though learning curve > is not much of an issue for me) I look to the community to understand which > Python framework can rival or surpass Codeigniter in terms of performance > in heavy traffic backend solutions (over 1M requests per day, with up to > 100 req/sec at peak). I really want to make the switch from PHP to Python > as I believe that Python can solve more problems with less code and faster > execution time, not to mention freedom from brackets and semicolons. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
While there several others with smaller footprint, django is probably the elephant in the room -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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