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I would prefer not to deal with "scaling up" for workloads that could run in a single process on commodity hardware. I've mainly worked at companies that would
by anonymoushn 7y ago
I would prefer not to deal with "scaling up" for workloads that could run in a single process on commodity hardware.
I've mainly worked at companies that would be bankrupt if they used Python the way Instagram does.
- bsder 7y agoDjango and Python somehow handled websites for entire newspapers on far wimpier hardware just fine--which makes me wonder if "cloud" (ie. non-deterministic memory and I/O accesses due to sharing with other tenants) isn't the problem rather than Python. You need a market. You need paying customers. You need cashflow. You need features. You need a business plan. You don't need scaling. Ever. To first, second and third order approximations. Your company has a higher probability of bankruptcy than needing scaling.
- earthboundkid 7y agoNewspapers run everything behind a CDN, so Django isn’t a bottleneck. The things they do that can’t just be CDN buffered (like ad targeting and paywalls and comments) end up being supplied by outside vendors. I think Django fits well for a news org, but it’s good to understand why it fits well.