El Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:33:45 -0700 Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> escribió:
> Makes sense to me. If you care to substitute 'web2py' for 'python' > you can come to pretty much the same conclusion. The choice of web2py > influences your architecture, of course, but it neither prevents nor > guarantees scalability. > > > Does Python Scale? > Mitch Garnaat > 10/14/11 10:45 AM > Elastician > I wonder how many times I've been asked that question over the > years. Often, it's not even in the form of a question (Sorry, Mr. > Trebek) but rather stated emphatically; "Python doesn't scale". This > can be the start of long, heated discussions involving Global > Interpreter Locks, interpreters vs. compilers, dynamic vs. static > typing, etc. These discussions rarely end satisfactorily for any of > the parties involved. And rarely are any opinions changed as a > result. So, does Python scale? > > Well, YouTube is written mostly in Python. DropBox is written almost > entirely in Python. Reddit. Quora. Disqus. FriendFeed. These are > huge sites, handling gazillions of hits a day. They are written in > Python. Therefore, Python scales. > > Yeah, but what about that web app I wrote that one time. Hosted on a > cheapo, oversubscribed VPS, running straight CGI talking to a remote > MySQL database running in a virtual machine on my Macbook Air. That > thing fell over like a drunken sailor when I invited a few of my > friends to go check it out. So, yeah. Forget what I said before. > Obviously Python doesn't scale. > > The truth is, it's the wrong question. The stuff that allows Dropbox > to store a million files every 15 minutes has little to do with > Python just as the things that caused my feeble web app to fail had > little to do with Python. It has to do with the overall architecture > of the application. How databases are sharded, how loosely or > tightly components have been coupled, how you monitor, and how you > react to the data your monitoring is providing you. And lots of > other stuff. But you have to deal with those issues no matter what > language you write the system in. > > No reasonable choice of computer language is going to guarantee your > success or your failure. So pick the one you are most productive in > and focus on properly architecting your app. That scales. Fair enough... scalability does not deppend on the language, framework, tool, etc. On any project scalability deppends on design... Python/Web2py will be scalable as long as your design itself is, else it won't. Marco.
