Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
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Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
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Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#2Related question: http://www.quora.com/Django/Why-is-Justin-tv-porting-their-c...
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#4> I talked to someone from Justin about 2 years ago. He told me they wrote Twice to scale Rails because there was no easy way to make Rails fast.
Doing it wrong.
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#5Not sure if they will gain a lot of performance from this transition...according to shootout ( http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan... ) python is only few % faster than ruby. Maybe they should consider porting their entire ecosystem to JVM as twitter did it.
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#6It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based.
Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#7Not sure if they will gain a lot of performance from this transition...according to shootout ( http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan... ) python is only few % faster than ruby. Maybe they should consider porting their entire ecosystem to JVM as twitter did it.
They could run the site on PyPy as opposed to the CPython interpreter. Postgres and Django are well supported.
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#8It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based. Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
Rack was inspired by pythons wsgi
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#9It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based. Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
Yes, there is WSGI which Rack is roughly based on.
WSGI 1.0, PEP-333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/
WSGI 1.0.1, PEP-3333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/
Re: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
#10Not sure if they will gain a lot of performance from this transition...according to shootout ( http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan... ) python is only few % faster than ruby. Maybe they should consider porting their entire ecosystem to JVM as twitter did it.
They could run the site on PyPy as opposed to the CPython interpreter. Postgres and Django are well supported. https://bitbucket.org/alex_gaynor/pypy-postgresql http://speed.pypy.org/timeline/#/?exe=3,6,1,5&base=2+472...
I would feel hard pressed to sell PostGres with PyPy as well supported at the moment.
Django maybe, purely because it doesn't depend on too many C Libs.