wiemersl

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by wiemersl 17y ago
Thanks again from Matt and I for the feedback. You've made your point loudly and clearly, and we will most definitely tweak accordingly.
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by wiemersl 17y ago
Pylons has served us pretty well in so far as it seems a more modular approach vs. django. Pylons encourages you to tweak the framework itself as you see fit. In our case, we incorporate a bunch of custom framework code. I'm sure you cou
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by wiemersl 17y ago
+1 on using virtual desktops to position things in 'space'. That is how i work and it is mighty helpful, especially when you have many different simultaneous servers/environments open. also, for what it is worth, i love being able to run
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by wiemersl 17y ago
Hmmmm. Is it 'really hard' to develop web apps with python and avoid django? No. It isn't.
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by wiemersl 17y ago
Have used ec2 and s3 for a while now in a production context. While there may be cheaper services out there, we've appreciated the ability to scale up and down rapidly, build test environments, etc. It really depends on where you are at i
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by wiemersl 17y ago
good q. if you can, use the same thing on the server as you use on your desktop. i use 32 bit ubuntu (8.04). if it performs fine on your 2GB RAM thinkpad, it will probably do fine on an ec2 box, no? if the config works on my desktop, it
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by wiemersl 19y ago
Here is the thing. What makes some other solution more immune to a system-wide crash than ec2? When that happens, what is the major difference between that solution and an ec2 based one? If you really want to play it safe and don't trust
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by wiemersl 19y ago
This might be what you mean, but a combination of memcached and a replicated database running on some ec2 boxes should work pretty well. The socialtext link implies that. I haven't used simpledb yet, but as far as I understand it seems lik