simn_stv wrote: > hello people, i have been reading posts on this group for quite some > time now and many, if not all (actually not all!), seem quite > interesting. > i plan to build an application, a network based application that i > estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day > (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook' > or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which > gets pretty busy... > so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make > python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and > the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh > God))...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be > the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and > efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned. > > would python be able to manage giving me a solid 'core' and will i be > able to use python provide any API i would like to implement?... > > im sorry if my subject was not as clear as probably should be!. > i guess this should be the best place to ask this sort of thing, hope > im so right. > > Thanks
I'd suggest that if you are running an operation that gets 100,000 hits a day then your problems won't be with Python but with organizational aspects of your operation. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
