Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
And although http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor.
