taking python enterprise level?...

[Tim Wintle]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 02:26 -0800, simn_stv wrote:
> i plan to build an application, a network based application that i
> estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day
> (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook'
> or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which
> gets pretty busy...

I've got apps running that handle *well* over 100,000 hits / process /
day using Python - although some of the heavy lifting is off-loaded to C
and MySql - obviously without actually looking at your requirements that
doesn't mean much as I don't know how much work each hit requires.

Regarding financial transactions - you'll almost certainly want to
integrate with something that already has transactional support (sql
etc) - so I expect that will bear the brunt of the load

> so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make
> python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and
> the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh
> God))

I've avoided integrating java with my python (I'm not a big fan of java)
- but I've integrated quite a bit of C - it's fairly easy to do, and you
can just port the inner loops if you see the need arise.

> ...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be
> the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and
> efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned.

I've heard that php can be well scaled (by compiling it to bytecode/C++)
- but my preference would always be to python.

Tim