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Rant ON... Python is not suitable for any high volume server application. It is designed for simple scripting. Rant OFF. > On Jan 4, 2020, at 5:41 PM, Justin Israel <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 7:28:24 AM UTC+13, Motaz Hejaze wrote: > > 1 - Is there really a big performance ( speed ) difference between using > Python OR Golang in backend web development ? > > There are a number of reasons why Go could out-perform Python when comparing > django to a Go web backend. > Firstly, in order to scale django across multiple cores on the same host, one > generally deploys a python web framework under uwsgi which handles spawning > multiple instances of the application and load balancing th request. Python > is effectively single threaded because of the GIL so this is the solution for > production python web servers. > Go on the other hand can use all of the cores with just a single process and > can be deployed directly. > > Aside from that, there could be other areas where Go performs better, > depending on what your application is doing, because it is compiled and uses > static types as opposed to python being interpreted and constantly using > reflection. One can mitigate some of these performance issues with compiled > python extensions. But again, it depends. > > 4 - I know that go comes with builtin web server , is it reliable for > production ? or shall we connect go with classic web servers aka ( nginx , > apache ) ? > > The stdlib web server is production grade and can be used to deploy the > binary directly without the need for a proxy. > But the use of a proxy can still be valid for situations where you want load > balancing, static file caching, or TLS terminatation, as a few examples. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/f9e386d9-007a-4b1e-8841-474e098fbfeb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/f9e386d9-007a-4b1e-8841-474e098fbfeb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/9803C50D-AB5B-469A-825A-95AABE783BC8%40ix.netcom.com.
