Fair enough. If there's no processing at all, best to serve the static site
direct through Nginx/Apache. Otherwise, as you note, conditional models may
not work so waiting for "lazy tables" might be best (should be any day now
in 2.0).
On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:55:35 PM UTC-7, Yarin wrote:
>
> Who said anything about premature? We want our app to run faster, and we
> are gonna worry about it.
>
> On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:49:22 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote:
>>
>> If you haven't determined a performance issue, best to not worry about it
>> ("premature optimization -> evil").
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:52:12 PM UTC-7, Yarin wrote:
>>>
>>> A basic architecture question:
>>>
>>> We're putting together a typical web app where non-logged in users reach
>>> a public-facing basic 'brochure' site, and then log in to reach the 'real'
>>> application. With such a setup, it makes no sense to be loading models for
>>> the public portion of the site, as it's just some semi-static pages and a
>>> login form. So I'm wondering
>>>
>>> - a) Is there a way to prevent models loading at the request or
>>> controller level?
>>> - b) Should the 'public' site be part of the same application at
>>> all, or should it be a separate light-weight application with a login
>>> form
>>> that then points to the 'real' application?
>>>
>>>
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