The number of people that can write code better than I can is close to the number of people who CAN write code…
On Nov 29, 2010, at 17:08 , Branko Vukelic wrote: > We know .NET will scale to thousands of nodes IF you write the .NET > code right. If you write crappy code (and that's inevitable if you > don't like .NET or you don't know .NET), it will not only NOT run on > thousands of nodes, but will probably crash all of them. > > Having said that... if they can help you write better code on .NET > than you currently write in web2py, the above argument turns on you. > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: >> Unfortunately, the killing argument is "we know .NET will scale to thousands >> of nodes, blah, blah, blah". >> >> This from (a guy who's smart and I respect, honestly) who uses his brand-new >> top-of-the-line 17" MBP to run Windows VMs in Parallels. >> >> On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:20 , Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: >> >>> And this without considering "vendor lock-in". web2py can run on a >>> variety of platforms such as windows, macs. Linux and others, same >>> goes for the selection of the back-end database. Much more flexibility >>> under web2py in my opinion and prototyping is much faster in python. >>> >>> On Nov 29, 10:05 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: >>>> You achieve scalability by replicating the web server behind a load >>>> balancer. This is documented in the book, chapter 11, using HAProxy. >>>> All frameworks work the same way in this respect. web2py has no >>>> intrinsic limitations. The bottle neck is the database connection. All >>>> frameworks have the same problem. You can replicate the database too >>>> and web2py supports multiple database clients with Round-Robin. >>>> >>>> On a small VPS, web2py in average, should execute one page in 20ms. >>>> Depending on how many requests/second you need you can determine how >>>> many servers you need. >>>> >>>> web2py apps run on Google App Engine and that means arbitrary >>>> scalability as long as you can live with the constraints imposed by >>>> the Google datastore (these limitations will go away as soon as Google >>>> releases MySQL in the cloud, which they announced some time ago). >>>> >>>> Please ask the consultant: which .NET feature makes it scale any >>>> better than web2py or Rails? If he explains we can address it more >>>> specifically. >>>> >>>> Massimo >>>> >>>> On Nov 29, 11:56 am, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> The project I'm working on has hired a consultant who is now recommending >>>>> .Net in place of web2py or even rails. >>>> >>>>> What's the 'largest' scale web2py is known to perform well on? >>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Lorin Rivers >>>>> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >>>>> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> >>>>> 512/203.3198 (m) >> >> -- >> Lorin Rivers >> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> >> 512/203.3198 (m) >> >> >> > > > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > bg.bra...@gmail.com > stu...@brankovukelic.com > > Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guild > http://bit.ly/gbg-group -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
