Erlang is for humongous, real-time, distributed, and highly-available apps.
Here's an example (maybe quoted one time too often): http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:45 PM, John Heenan <johnmhee...@gmail.com> wrote: > The elephant in the room has not gone away Massimo. > > Web2py is great for small projects. > > DotNet is great for small and large projects. > > The elephant in the room is not only the untested scalibility of > web2py but also the amount of resources that neeeds to be thrown at > web2py compared to DotNet and other frameworks as scale increases. > > One of the glaring defciences in web frameworks that use Python is the > glaring engineering weakness of using thread per request web serving > instead of using event per request web serving. I think I have pointed > this out a number of times on this fourm, but it just does not sink > in. I even pointed out how Linux loast a PR war over this issue. > > There is no need for Python based web frameworks to use thread per > request web serving. > > John Heenan > > On Nov 30, 4:05 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) >> >> -- 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
