13 messages in com.googlegroups.pylons-discussRe: Pylons Evaluation -Questions| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| voltron | 27 Apr 2007 11:44 | |
| Shannon -jj Behrens | 27 Apr 2007 16:49 | |
| Cliff Wells | 27 Apr 2007 17:21 | |
| Shannon -jj Behrens | 27 Apr 2007 17:27 | |
| voltron | 27 Apr 2007 20:50 | |
| Cliff Wells | 27 Apr 2007 23:03 | |
| voltron | 28 Apr 2007 02:43 | |
| Dan | 28 Apr 2007 05:06 | |
| voltron | 28 Apr 2007 08:27 | |
| Cliff Wells | 28 Apr 2007 16:19 | |
| Dan | 28 Apr 2007 19:48 | |
| Shannon -jj Behrens | 01 May 2007 16:38 | |
| Shannon -jj Behrens | 01 May 2007 16:40 |
| Subject: | Re: Pylons Evaluation -Questions |
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| From: | Shannon -jj Behrens (jjin...@public.gmane.org) |
| Date: | 04/27/2007 04:49:51 PM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.pylons-discuss |
On 4/27/07, voltron <nhytro-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
Hi all!
I "shopping" around for a Python based web framework for a potentially large site, I have narrowed my choice to Django and Pylons. I have a few questions to ask about Pylons if I may.
Pylons is better at: * Being a hacker's framework. * Mixing and matching your components. * Not getting in your way. * Developing custom *applications*.
Django is better at: * Being accessible by newbies. * Letting developers quickly throw together something and start inserting content. * Developing custom *web sites*.
How are Pylon projects structured? Does a Pylon project map directly to a complete Web application and the modules that make up the application the "controllers"?
Pretty much. Take a look at the QuickWiki tutorial. That's enough to know what's going on.
What is the favored, most stable Web server/ Pylon configuration?
Many of us prefer using Paster (the Web server in Paste), proxied behind Apache.
How does Pylons scale? Do I throw more hardware at it or just add more servers and a load balancer?
It's the same as everything else. You can add more Web servers. If you use sessions, you'll need to either a) use session stickiness (ugly) or b) use a session server (less ugly). Pylons doesn't have any inherent scaling problems. I can say this with conviction because I just finished reading "Scalable Internet Architectures" and "Building Scalable Web Sites" :)
Is there a way to "short-circuit" all requests to pylons and carry out certain actions based on this? For example, I intend to log page impressions based on different types of requests
Yes. You have two ways 1) by using middleware 2) by using a controller superclass.
Best Regards, -jj