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From: Joel Goldstick To: harry.andrei@gmail.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bf0f67aa7c17f04e7742f3e Cc: "python-list@python.org" X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 82 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1380386117 news.xs4all.nl 15996 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47843 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:54954 --047d7bf0f67aa7c17f04e7742f3e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, wrote: > I will be designing a REST based API for a cross-platform back end that > will serve both desktop Facebook users as well as mobile users. It will > handle operations such as user creation, retrieval of user and other data, > payment verification and in the case of the desktop side, handle the > html/css template customization. The database back end is MySQL and I do > need a cache system. > > Currently we were using Codeigniter (PHP) for our codebase but as CI seems > on the way out, I do not wish to start a new project based on it. I was > looking at Laravel for PHP, but, Python is very attractive to me as a > language and since the introduction of WSGI, I am confident it can make a > difference in performance and code maintainability over PHP while being > able to plug in to our dedicated server infrastructure. > > Since I am not experienced with Python frameworks (though learning curve > is not much of an issue for me) I look to the community to understand which > Python framework can rival or surpass Codeigniter in terms of performance > in heavy traffic backend solutions (over 1M requests per day, with up to > 100 req/sec at peak). I really want to make the switch from PHP to Python > as I believe that Python can solve more problems with less code and faster > execution time, not to mention freedom from brackets and semicolons. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > While there several others with smaller footprint, django is probably the elephant in the room -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com --047d7bf0f67aa7c17f04e7742f3e Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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