Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-03 Thread Phillip B Oldham
On Jun 2, 5:40 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Django is the easy part. Replicating your DB is the hard part. This isn't too much of a concern for me. The db we're using currently will scale nicely, and we've already got replication happening for back-up and redundency purposes.

Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-03 Thread Phillip B Oldham
On Jun 2, 5:10 pm, The Code Janitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > solid enterprise grade examples are > seriously lacking. Do you mean high-traffic'd django sites? I've not really come across many myself. Examples of these would be good. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-02 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Phillip B Oldham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at using django to replace our current CMS application > written in PHP. Currently we have two servers behind a load balancer, > and everything's nice and stable. We're getting a consistent month-on- > month

Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-02 Thread The Code Janitor
If you consider that Django started as an application for the news paper industry and the associated sites you might get a reasonable guess at answering your own question. I agree with all the other posts in that correctly building the infrastructure and properly engineering your application to

Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-02 Thread Michael Wieher
I'd imagine like anything else, the tools exist to do it right, but its up to the work man to put the round pegs in the square hole, er or vice-versa? The issues you'll have when you discuss distributed loads rarely fall onto the appserver itself, rather, they come into play regarding cache

Re: How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-02 Thread Ed McCaffrey
I'm new to Django, as well, so don't take this reply as authoritative. Chapter 20 of The Django book -- www.djangobook.com -- details various deployment scenarios, including ones distributed among several servers. It suggests that it is relatively easy to scale Django across several tiers (web

How nicely does django play in a distributed environment?

2008-06-02 Thread Phillip B Oldham
I'm looking at using django to replace our current CMS application written in PHP. Currently we have two servers behind a load balancer, and everything's nice and stable. We're getting a consistent month-on- month traffic increase though and I'm looking at moving to a more distributed model -