Let me just say that the chance that your app will have the traffic of facebook or twitter or even livejournal (yes it is still alive) is so small, that you really don't need to worry about it too much at such an early stage.
On Nov 13, 3:11 pm, Branko Vukelic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Jason Brower <[email protected]> wrote: > > These are encouraging. > > In large deployment I mean it in the most external sense of it. Facebook is > > big, myspace is big, those kinds of object were what I was aiming for. And > > For that kind of large deployment, you'll probably hit the limitation > of the Python programming language sooner or later, too. Erlang seems > to have become quite popular lately and even Facebook uses it for some > backend stuff. The main reason is out-of-box concurrency, and great > reliability under load which comes from supervisor-worker setup that > is built-in. A good example of what this means is Yaws http server > which is virtually impossible to kill even if you bombard it with a > huge (as in MUCH more than http server X) number of concurrent > requests. > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > Check out my blog:http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca:http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guildhttp://bit.ly/gbg-group
