On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 7:28:24 AM UTC+13, Motaz Hejaze wrote: > > > 1 - Is there really a big performance ( speed ) difference between using > Python OR Golang in backend web development ? >
There are a number of reasons why Go *could* out-perform Python when comparing django to a Go web backend. Firstly, in order to scale django across multiple cores on the same host, one generally deploys a python web framework under uwsgi which handles spawning multiple instances of the application and load balancing th request. Python is effectively single threaded because of the GIL so this is the solution for production python web servers. Go on the other hand can use all of the cores with just a single process and can be deployed directly. Aside from that, there could be other areas where Go performs better, depending on what your application is doing, because it is compiled and uses static types as opposed to python being interpreted and constantly using reflection. One can mitigate some of these performance issues with compiled python extensions. But again, *it depends*. > 4 - I know that go comes with builtin web server , is it reliable for > production ? or shall we connect go with classic web servers aka ( nginx , > apache ) ? > The stdlib web server is production grade and can be used to deploy the binary directly without the need for a proxy. But the use of a proxy can still be valid for situations where you want load balancing, static file caching, or TLS terminatation, as a few examples. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/f9e386d9-007a-4b1e-8841-474e098fbfeb%40googlegroups.com.
