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Performance is the only thing that is holding me back to consider Python for bigger web applications. Of the 3 main languages for web dev these days - Python, PHP and Javascript - I like Python the most. But it is scary how slow the default runtime, CPython, is. Compared to PHP and Javascript, it crawls like a snake. Pypy could be a solution as it seems to be about 6x faster on average. Is anybody here using Pypy for…
Performance is the only thing that is holding me back to consider Python for bigger web applications. Of the 3 main languages for web dev these days - Python, PHP and Javascript - I like Python the most. But it is scary how slow the default runtime, CPython, is. Compared to PHP and Javascript, it crawls like a snake. Pypy could be a solution as it seems to be about 6x faster on average. Is anybody here using Pypy for…
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So much this. Practically any other option is better than Python for web development if you're looking for performance.
By this logic, why not Java, C++, Rust, Go, C#? They’re all web-capable and blow the doors off PHP, Python, etc.
"Serverless" scales infinitely due to its simpler request/response lifecycle.
Performance is the only thing that is holding me back to consider Python for bigger web applications. Of the 3 main languages for web dev these days - Python, PHP and Javascript - I like Python the most. But it is scary how slow the default runtime, CPython, is. Compared to PHP and Javascript, it crawls like a snake. Pypy could be a solution as it seems to be about 6x faster on average. Is anybody here using Pypy for…
Clubhouse is using CPython
Performance is the only thing that is holding me back to consider Python for bigger web applications. Of the 3 main languages for web dev these days - Python, PHP and Javascript - I like Python the most. But it is scary how slow the default runtime, CPython, is. Compared to PHP and Javascript, it crawls like a snake. Pypy could be a solution as it seems to be about 6x faster on average. Is anybody here using Pypy for…
The top 5 web app programming languages by market share are PHP, Java, JS, Lua and Ruby.
If it is just a backend, why not port it over to one of the myriad of cloud autoscaling solutions that are out there? The opportunity cost of spending time figuring out why only 29 workers are receiving requests over adding new features that generate more revenue, seems like a quick decision. Personally, I just start off with that now in the first place, the development load isn't any greater and the solutions that a…
Now, maybe they could have fixed that issue instead, but going from 29 to 58 workers is easy, it's not the same going to 29,000 to 58,000. And 1000 hosts vs 500 is a non-trivial cost.
If it is just a backend, why not port it over to one of the myriad of cloud autoscaling solutions that are out there? The opportunity cost of spending time figuring out why only 29 workers are receiving requests over adding new features that generate more revenue, seems like a quick decision. Personally, I just start off with that now in the first place, the development load isn't any greater and the solutions that a…
one process per container, easy peasy
And the solution to this problem is to slowly, rate-limited, bring the service back online, rather than letting the whole thundering herd go through the door immediately.
If it is just a backend, why not port it over to one of the myriad of cloud autoscaling solutions that are out there? The opportunity cost of spending time figuring out why only 29 workers are receiving requests over adding new features that generate more revenue, seems like a quick decision. Personally, I just start off with that now in the first place, the development load isn't any greater and the solutions that a…