Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Dj Gilcrease
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Berco Beute wrote: > - Stack. What would currently be a good combination webserver/protocol/ > database? Possible options: Lighttpd, Cherokee, apache, FastCGI, > mod_python, wsgi, mysql, progress... I realize there is no 'best' > solution, but I would like to hear

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Almad
Well, I'd like to write some docs first, but hey ,) I'm developing something on top of nose, to express my feelings, I call it django-sane-testing. Grab nose 0.10 and sane testing from http://devel.almad.net/trac/django-sane-testing/wiki/Releases and enjoy usual nose features (test selection, pro

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
This is a pretty good response. There are a couple of points where a different point of view might be interesting, however. I've added some extra things, below. On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 01:06 -0800, Webchemist wrote: > This is exactly my situation, when I started to work under drugme.ru - > this is

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Webchemist
This is exactly my situation, when I started to work under drugme.ru - this is rather big Russian social network website, Berco Beute: > - Stack. What would currently be a good combination webserver/protocol/ > database? Possible options: Lighttpd, Cherokee, apache, FastCGI, > mod_python, wsgi,

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-05 Thread Alexey Moskvin
Hello! Perhaps, there is no answers to your questions because of some of them are already discussed here and in other django-related places (like cache perfomance e t.c.), some of them are closed to holywar :) (like to use or not to use of the ORM), and some of them like "How about Django in that

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-05 Thread Berco Beute
Still looking for some feedback. :) In the meantime I've collected a few links that might be useful for others with the same questions: http://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/EuroPython2008-Designing-Large-Scale-Applications-in-Python/ http://highscalability.com/ebay-architecture http://high