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Servers are much cheaper than humans. First of all, the amount of time that'd be required to rewrite things in said "higher performance" language with the hope
by mattrobenolt 13y ago
Servers are much cheaper than humans.
First of all, the amount of time that'd be required to rewrite things in said "higher performance" language with the hopes of getting some improvements would be very costly. It's not something that'd be done in even a month by one person. It'd be a whole company effort. Learning curve of new language, etc.
With that aside, I guarantee, for our use case at least, I'd rather invest my time into tuning a Varnish config and save the same # of servers without all the man power wasted.
Our server costs are much much cheaper than our human costs.
- iends 13y agoThis is certainly the case now. You have too much technical debt. For future projects should you continue to use Django/Python, or something with better performance? Should this be a lesson to me as a Django developer, that I'm better off starting a company on a different stack if I want to keep server costs low?
- mattrobenolt 13y agoIt obviously depends on the project, but for something like Disqus or anything else large in terms of size, I'd still go with Django. For some personal projects, I like to use werkzeug, but they usually are very small and don't do much. :) I also write things personally in Go if it makes sense. But the Go work is typically not for web services.