Tim Hoffman wrote: > Hi Folks > > I have been working on a site (www.polytechnic.wa.edu.au) based on > repoze.bfg running on app engine for the last few months.
Hey, cool, Python people in WA. :) And for you ignorant Americans, that's not Washington, that's Western Australia. Nice site, too. > (I don't do visual design I just make it run). It uses bfg-pages > (http://code.google.com/p/bfg-pages/) for zpt templating and appengine > datamodel traversal so > that it can reflect large amounts of the plone structure. That's quite interesting. > All of the > custom entities used are designed in Enterprise Architect and the > python classes and interface definitions > are generated directly from the UML model. You mean Sparx EA? How do you use it? > Beaker is used for session management middleware with a custom plugin > to put sessions into memcache. > > Formish is used for the few forms we use in appengine (mainly site > configuration and our own concept of actions and portlets for > appengine) > > Content is authored in Plone (running on EC2) which is then pushed > from plone to appengine. What do you use for the push? > Course data is extracted from a SQLServer database and pushed into > plone where it is annotated and then published to appengine > All content is indexed on solr (also running on ec2) for searching > from appengine (appengine doesn't have any text search capability > worth mentioning) . Nifty. > We had a few teething problems in the last week where our production > instance's performance was being affected by things happening inside > google. > Which turns out be a known problem (for google engineering that is ;-) > > In the last 24 hours we moved all of the data to a new instance and > all seems well so far (fingers crossed). Good job! Out of curiosity, why did you choose to go with an EC2 + GAE setup instead of just using EC2 or doing some other cheap hosting? Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
