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Not 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.
I have never hosted/written a django app, do people typically run a request in a thread in django? I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+).
I wouldn't recommend using something like rails to stream video, however there are tons of great asynchronous ways to do this and it seems like the justin.tv guys are familiar with this. I would be curious to hear why the rewrite?
* youtube: http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture * itunes: I have a friend on the itunes team and from what i can garnish from him their java servers are single threaded and their boxes hum around 10% cpu usage however they are bound on memory (similar to rails as they are not using java threads for each request). Akamai serves most of the content as I understood it.
Not 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 gain in productivity and ease of support
It's hard to know all the details but it seems like most other video providers* scale by using http caching [max age + etags] with a CDN. Language performance isn't really the bottleneck remote calls are much slower :/ I have never hosted/written a django app, do people typically run a request in a thread in django? I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+). I wouldn't recommend using something like rails to s…
It's hard to know all the details but it seems like most other video providers* scale by using http caching [max age + etags] with a CDN. Language performance isn't really the bottleneck remote calls are much slower :/ I have never hosted/written a django app, do people typically run a request in a thread in django? I thought python had a GIL just like Ruby (1.9+). I wouldn't recommend using something like rails to s…
Btw: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/16/justintvs-live-vid...
hope sick office is a typo, must be slick office
"We're located in downtown San Francisco and have a sick office overlooking Market St." hope sick office is a typo, must be slick office
Sometimes people in HN make the stupidest assumptions.