You may be suprised how good you are. Especially in such short time you can improve. I went from barely scraping up web-pages to some pretty impressive intra-net sites in just a few months. .Net will eventually teach you how not to code. It makes you truly appriciate web2py. It's tough to have persuade people that have a big bully behind them. I know the feeling, but if you can develop the prototype and you do it right, you win. Besides, I wonder if this consultant is coding at all. His skills to code is directly relative to the statements he makes, at least to me. BR, Jason
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:09 -0600, Lorin Rivers wrote: > 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 >
