[Zope] performance concern

[Maik Jablonski]

On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 21:13:10 +0200
"Dario Lopez-K=E4sten" <dario@ita.chalmers.se> wrote:

> I think you are missing the point here, gentlemen - the problem was not=
 to
> impress potential clients or what kind of hardware to use, but to find =
a way
> to optimise the queries and the speed of DB-accesses.

> This does not change the fact that there are some problems or issues wi=
th DB
> intensive Zope apps. Basically what Andreas and Maik are saying is that=
 Zope
> sucks^H^H^H is sub-optimal when building DB intesive apps unless it is =
on
> the top-of-the line hardwara - which is kind of sad, because only last
> summer a 450 Mhz machine with Linux was pretty decent, and something th=
at
> competing products would have no problem performing pretty well on.

hi,

what I tried to say was: if you use a clever system of caching you can ra=
n
heavy load with moderate hardware. In my opinion clever caching is the ke=
y
to build highly dynamic internet-applications which will give you althoug=
h
an impression of speed. Using the right combination of Accelerated Cache
Managers, RAM-Caches and reverse Proxies will give you performance. Optim=
izing
your DTML, your DatabaseQueries and so is necessary, but thats peanuts in
comparison. Most people want ZOPE serving many users with many DB-queries
without caching at all and complain about ZOPE's performance... that's un=
fair,
I would guess...;-)

greetings, maik.