On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I personally know the author and I definitely recommend it. He's
>> focused and competent.
>
> Oh, cool!

He also gave a talk about nginx's mod_wsgi at the PyCon Italy
<http://www.pycon.it/pycon2/schedule/talk/una-implementazione-di-wsgi-per-nginx/>
(webpage in italian)

> Haha, when you said it didn't scale for multiple cores or multiple
> nodes, I was going to knee jerk and say, "What about Erlang!"  You
> beat me to the punch ;)  Yes, async is a technique.  Just like event
> based programming in general is a technique.  You still have to use
> that technique in smart ways to build big systems.

Right.

> I haven't used Eventlet yet.  It's based on the same ideas that
> IronPort uses, and clearly, IronPort servers are all over the world.
> It's nice because it "feels" like threads, but it "acts" like async.

Like pyprocessing feels like threads but acts like processes ;)
I am fond of libraries/frameworks like that lowering the bar of
scalability adoption.
I think it is something we should not ignore anymore as developers, of any kind

>> Noted. I am reading Building Scalable Websites at the moment but I
>> will buy it afterwards
>
> I read that one too.  It's a big long and boring, eh?

Yup. There's some interesting stuff but it's a little bit too focused
on PHP+MySQL (after all is based on the Flickr experience).
Sometimes it feels like "Python do not have this kind of problem,
let's move along"

> "Scalable
> Internet Architectures" was a bit more to the point, and it includes a
> lot more stuff about scalability per se.

Wow. What about High Performance Websites by Souders? I bought it at
the O'Reilly booth 2 weeks ago at PyCon Italy

> I blogged about both of them:
> http://jjinux.blogspot.com/search?q=scalable+internet+architectures

Nice

> http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2006/11/book-review-building-scalable-web.html

"I was tearing my
hair out when Cal spent five pages explaining what source control is and
listing its basic features." hahahaha I thought the same thing.
I found nice the deep intro to encodings and utf, by the way

Bye

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something when his salary depends on not
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