>> 1. Databases. Assuming I roll my own, does python have any
>> performance issues for this sort of thing?
Most databases are written in a compiled language (gadfly being an
exception). Even so, in my apps that use databases (mostly SQL-based), the
database is the bottleneck, not Python.
>> 5. Threads and parallelism. Should I even bother? I've read that
>> it's possibly more tricky with python than with normal dev tools.
Threads help if you're going to be I/O-bound. If you're going to be
CPU-bound I wouldn't bother unless it provides some major structural
advantage to your code. If you think you need more than a couple CPUs, you
probably want a multi-process model anyway so you can leverage multiple
computers on a LAN (think Beowulf-style multiprocessing).
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