Hey guys, I am an experienced Python developer starting to work on web service backend system. The system feeds data (constantly) from the web to a MySQL database. This data is later displayed by a frontend side (there is no connection between the frontend and the backend). The backend system constantly downloads flight information from the web (some of the data is fetched via APIs, and some by downloading and parsing text / xls files). I already have a script that downloads the data, parses it, and inserts it to the MySQL db - all in a big loop. The frontend side is just a bunch of php pages that properly display the data by querying the MySQL server.
It is crucial that this web service be robust, strong and reliable. Therefore, I have been looking into the proper ways to design it, and got the following recommendation: django as the framework (over Apache). wrapping my sources with Piston for API usage. All if this sounds great. I used django before to write websites (aka request handlers that return data). However I don't see how django can fulfill a role of a constant running (non request-serving) system - being that it uses views/forms, which are not a part of my backend system. Is want I want at all possible / advisable with django? Is django what you would recommend for this? If so, could you please refer me to some documentation / help files more specific to my needs? Thank you so much, Aviv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
