On 26 Feb 2006, at 20:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good conversations...
One question that I keep asking myself about RAD frameworks like
Catalyst is yeah, they're nice to develop a quick solution but how
well do they scale?
In particular, I'd like to use Catalyst but I haven't seen much
traffic about large application success stories...
Having build http://www.mightyv.com/ I can testify that Catalyst is a
nice system to work with - yes, still skimpy on the docs, but it's
got one of the most helpful
and active development teams (who seem to be on IRC 24 hours a day)
I've come across.
In terms of scaling I would think that almost any major frame work is
NOT what you want to use for a very high capacity site. By their very
nature
frameworks are going to have to do more work than if you wrote it
directly your self, but then the same could be said for a lot of perl
it self - why
not write in C! - the answer is I want to get something working!
You can still do some optimization (using TT's template caching for
example) with in a Framework which will help with scaling.
So my personal approach is get it working, then refractor and keep
doing so as you need to, focus on where you have to optimise (usually
just a few
core pages on most sites), but make the rest of it easy to add
features, maintain etc.
Leo
