Unfortunately, the killing argument is "we know .NET will scale to thousands of nodes, blah, blah, blah".
This from (a guy who's smart and I respect, honestly) who uses his brand-new top-of-the-line 17" MBP to run Windows VMs in Parallels. On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:20 , Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > And this without considering "vendor lock-in". web2py can run on a > variety of platforms such as windows, macs. Linux and others, same > goes for the selection of the back-end database. Much more flexibility > under web2py in my opinion and prototyping is much faster in python. > > On Nov 29, 10:05 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >> You achieve scalability by replicating the web server behind a load >> balancer. This is documented in the book, chapter 11, using HAProxy. >> All frameworks work the same way in this respect. web2py has no >> intrinsic limitations. The bottle neck is the database connection. All >> frameworks have the same problem. You can replicate the database too >> and web2py supports multiple database clients with Round-Robin. >> >> On a small VPS, web2py in average, should execute one page in 20ms. >> Depending on how many requests/second you need you can determine how >> many servers you need. >> >> web2py apps run on Google App Engine and that means arbitrary >> scalability as long as you can live with the constraints imposed by >> the Google datastore (these limitations will go away as soon as Google >> releases MySQL in the cloud, which they announced some time ago). >> >> Please ask the consultant: which .NET feature makes it scale any >> better than web2py or Rails? If he explains we can address it more >> specifically. >> >> Massimo >> >> On Nov 29, 11:56 am, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> The project I'm working on has hired a consultant who is now recommending >>> .Net in place of web2py or even rails. >> >>> What's the 'largest' scale web2py is known to perform well on? >> >>> -- >>> Lorin Rivers >>> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >>> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> >>> 512/203.3198 (m) -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
