Re: question about huge websites

2006-08-17 Thread a
I would imagine that they aren't just using a database. most of the "low level socket stuff" I've seen is about setting timeouts and doing Async IO. thanks ian you are a gem, can you explain this further... Ian Holsman wrote: > On 16/08/2006, at 7:39 AM, a wrote: > > > > > What kind of low-level

Re: question about huge websites

2006-08-15 Thread Ian Holsman
On 16/08/2006, at 7:39 AM, a wrote:What kind of low-level socket and threading code is necessary for a dbintensive site such as reddit. How do we use it from django? doesanyonehave experience using itplease reply...I would imagine that they aren't just using a database.most of the "low level

Re: question about huge websites

2006-08-15 Thread Joseph Heck
Your question both seems orthognal to what you wrote and not really pertaining to Django. If you can lay out what you want to do, or ask how to do something specific, it would be much easier to answer.-joe On 8/15/06, a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

question about huge websites

2006-08-15 Thread a
http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html >From moving to python by the founders of reddit Because of the low-level socket and threading code we had to write, reddit would not run on my Mac, and I was always tethered to our FreeBSD development server. Not being able to program offline