Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-12-07 Thread Dr. Marco
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:21:25 -0800 (PST), Nick Mellor wrote : Hi, > I wasn't aware that Google used Python for running their Google groups > servers. Can you confirm that? The only place > I've seen Google explicitly use Python on their web front end is in > the Google Ads tests. > > I am impre

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-12-06 Thread Aaron Watters
The key to scaling a web site is to make sure you can load-balance to as many front ends as needed and then use a common database backend that is fast enough or possibly a common file system that is fast enough. I can't speak to Django specifically but you can certainly get essentially unlimited s

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-12-02 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Rami Chowdhury a écrit : On Monday 30 November 2009 10:55:55 inhahe wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ShoqulKutlu wrote: Hi, Managing load of high volume of visitors is a common issue for all kind of web technologies. I mean this is not the python issue. This issue is mostly about serv

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-12-01 Thread Rami Chowdhury
On Monday 30 November 2009 10:55:55 inhahe wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ShoqulKutlu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Managing load of high volume of visitors is a common issue for all > > kind of web technologies. I mean this is not the python issue. This > > issue is mostly about server level

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-30 Thread inhahe
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ShoqulKutlu wrote: > Hi, > > Managing load of high volume of visitors is a common issue for all > kind of web technologies. I mean this is not the python issue. This > issue is mostly about server level designs. You need to supply load > balancing for both web serv

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-30 Thread ShoqulKutlu
If you need an example one is in front of you and you are using it now. Google uses python at their thousands of servers. But as you see Google gains this performance from the power of hundreds of thousands servers. The main idea behind the Google search engine was indexing the whole web through hu

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-26 Thread Luis M . González
On Nov 25, 4:24 pm, Nick Mellor wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm contemplating setting up a Python-powered website for the tourist > industry, which will involve a web service, a good deal of XML > processing, and a Django-powered front-end. If the project works, it > could get a lot of traffic. I'm sure

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-26 Thread Nick Mellor
On Nov 27, 3:26 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Nick Mellor a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > I'm contemplating setting up a Python-powered website for the tourist > > industry, which will involve a web service, a good deal of XML > > processing, and a Django-powered front-end. If the project works,

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Nick Mellor a écrit : Hi all, I'm contemplating setting up a Python-powered website for the tourist industry, which will involve a web service, a good deal of XML processing, and a Django-powered front-end. If the project works, it could get a lot of traffic. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm loo

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-25 Thread ShoqulKutlu
Hi again, I also want to say something about creating a better web application. If I were you I wouldn't use any web framework like django or other. If you want to create a commercial project and want to manage all modules of the application yourself I suggest you to create your own framework. I d

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-25 Thread ShoqulKutlu
Hi Nick, Sorry about my concern on Google. It caused a confusion about Google groups. I didn't mean explicitly where Google uses python, I mentioned just Google uses Python. A Google officer told that they run Python on thousands of their servers at an interview. Due to this claim I wanted to say

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-25 Thread Nick Mellor
Thanks Kutlu, I wasn't aware that Google used Python for running their Google groups servers. Can you confirm that? The only place I've seen Google explicitly use Python on their web front end is in the Google Ads tests. I am impressed by the responsiveness of lawrence.com, ljworld.com and others

Re: High-performance Python websites

2009-11-25 Thread ShoqulKutlu
Hi, Managing load of high volume of visitors is a common issue for all kind of web technologies. I mean this is not the python issue. This issue is mostly about server level designs. You need to supply load balancing for both web servers and databases to make your web site able to respond to sever

High-performance Python websites

2009-11-25 Thread Nick Mellor
Hi all, I'm contemplating setting up a Python-powered website for the tourist industry, which will involve a web service, a good deal of XML processing, and a Django-powered front-end. If the project works, it could get a lot of traffic. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm looking to find out more ab