Alan Gauld wrote:
> "OkaMthembo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
>   
>> Is anyone aware of any large scale web apps developed in Python? 
>> Please let
>> me know of any that you know of...
>>     
>
> The Zope web site has many examples.
>
> But it depends how you define large scale. Most of the really big ones 
> (Google,
> Yahoo, IBM, BBC etc - anything with several million hits a day)  use 
> Java or C++
> in my experience. But a lot of large and busy sites do exist using one 
> or other
> of the Pyhon web frameworks, check the frameworks and you will find 
> case
> histories.
>
> And even the biggest sites often use languages like Python etc for
> experimental features or occasional access areas or for administration
> or test duties. One of the good things abourt web developments is that
> its pretty easy to mix frameworks and have it appear seamless to the 
> user.
>   

YouTube runs primarily on Python with critical code sections compiled 
using psyco.

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

Akamai is also a big python shop, from what I understand (no citation 
available).

Those big enough for you?


_______________________________________________
Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Reply via email to