Re: How to scale out django apps?

2009-04-13 Thread Andy
Tim, Thanks for the helpful answers. As for specific details about my app, right now I'm still in the design phase. It will start small, but hopefully it will get popular quickly. So I don't know how big the Db will be or how many users will there be. What I'm trying to do is to make sure

Re: How to scale out django apps?

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Chase
> Recently I found out Django doesn't support multiple databases. That's > quite surprising. > > Given that limitation, how do you scale out a Django app? Depends on where your bottleneck(s) is/are. It also depends heavily on your read/write usage pattern. If you're truly experiencing a

How to scale out django apps?

2009-04-13 Thread Continuation
Recently I found out Django doesn't support multiple databases. That's quite surprising. Given that limitation, how do you scale out a Django app? Without multi-DB support, most of the usual techniques for scaling out such as: - DB sharding - functional partitioning - eg. separate DB