Thanks! My comparison of Django and Ruby on Rails was definitely more subjective than objective. Although I read several good articles that had more objective metrics to compare Ruby and Python speed, I did not run those kinds of tests myself. My approach was more about gathering the information that was already out there - both online and from professional contacts - parsing it, and formulating some high-level thoughts on the differences between the two so I could make a decision for our site. I can say that our Django implementation is significantly faster than the CakePHP prototype I had initially built. We attribute most of that to being able to easily run simultaneous threads in Python for pulling in content.
Our infrastructure requirements are actually not that high right now. By using Python's built-in threading to gather content and CouchDB to quickly store and retrieve it, we're keeping resource requirements at a minimum. We do plan to upgrade to the cloud at some point, but for now we are on SliceHost, monitoring performance to determine when to upgrade. - Jason On Dec 17, 8:43 am, pabloi <pila...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jason, the site looks very nice. > > I also found your blog posting regarding Django vs Ruby very > interesting, if I may ask, did you make some metrics to determine how > faster Python can be over Ruby? > Also, this might be a lot to ask but ... what kind of infrastructure > do you use to support your site, I guess the site might required a lot > of resources to work. > > Congrats on the launching! > > - Pablo > > On Dec 17, 12:10 pm, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > > > > Let's see. We started on the Django version in mid-October...so right > > at 2 months from first code until now. Luke had used Django on a few > > projects before this one, but the past two months have been my > > introduction to Django. I really like it - especially compared with > > some of the PHP frameworks I had dabbled in previously. Not only was > > it quicker to build in Django, but I feel like our code is much more > > maintainable too. > > > - Jason > > > On Dec 17, 2:21 am, OkaMthembo <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to > > > finish? > > > > Lloyd > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > > > We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It > > > > is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media. > > > > It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple > > > > social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the > > > > incoming content back up on your own website. > > > > >http://www.feedmagnet.com > > > > > Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic. > > > > We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as > > > > they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other > > > > sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python > > > > integration code as an open source module soon. > > > > > Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework, > > > > documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the > > > > community! > > > > > - Jason > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > "Django users" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > > > groups.com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Sithembewena Lloyd Dubehttp://www.lloyddube.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
