Great thanks for the response. I was wondering mostly cause we are using Amazon infrastructure, which is by the way amazing, but is always good to consider alternatives.
- Pablo On Dec 17, 6:00 pm, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > 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.
