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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by bsder on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:23PM (#23110751)
Django and Python somehow handled websites for entire newspapers on far wimpier hardware just fine--which makes me wonder if "cloud" (ie. non-deterministic memory and I/O accesses due to sharing with other tenants) isn't the problem rather than Python.

You need a market. You need paying customers. You need cashflow. You need features. You need a business plan.

You don't need scaling. Ever. To first, second and third order approximations.

Your company has a higher probability of bankruptcy than needing scaling.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by earthboundkid on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:40PM (#23111186)
Newspapers run everything behind a CDN, so Django isn’t a bottleneck. The things they do that can’t just be CDN buffered (like ad targeting and paywalls and comments) end up being supplied by outside vendors. I think Django fits well for a news org, but it’s good to understand why it fits well.
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