Which Python Framework for REST API and Facebook Wrapper?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, <harry.andrei at gmail.com> 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.
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While there several others with smaller footprint, django is probably the
elephant in the room

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Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com
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