Are there any sites in the top Alexa or Compete 1000 powered by Django? I cannot find any. If not, is there a reason for this? It seems like a framework suited for rapid development with deployment options (fast cgi, mod_wsgi, mod_python) that are efficient. Am I missing something?
I've seen djangosites.com. The problem with that is it lists itself with as the second most popular django powered site.
2009-06-05 04:03:30
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For a link on scaling django check out this highscalability post
I don't know that the framework itself is a hindrance, but rather that the age of the framework is a bigger issue. While its been around for a while it hasn't been popular as long. Look at many of the top websites on the internet. What framework is Google on? Or Yahoo! or Facebook or Amazon or Digg or New York Times? More or less they are proprietary. Facebook for example uses a dozen languages to run its systems. Twitter which is RoR's poster child is also using Scala for their API (80% of their traffic).
Honestly I don't know of anything wrong with Django that keeps is from being in some of the most popular sites. Python is a popular web language, but it is well over shadowed by .NET, PHP, Java, Perl even Ruby in popularity. There are reasons for all of these language's success on the web. .NET and Java have major corporate backers, Perl has been around forever, PHP is ultra easy for beginners, and Ruby has been given James Dean cool status. Meanwhile, Python was used by scientists and traditionally a pain in the butt to get working for the web.
If you are worried about whether or not Django can handle it. I'm confident it can.
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According to http://www.djangoproject.com/
washingtonpost.com: The Washington Post's growing selection of innovative Web database applications.
mhawke
2009-06-05 06:47:43
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As I know, in Russia we have at least
- bobrdobr.ru - the most popular social bookmarking service here
some services of our most popular search engine, yandex.ru, are also known to be powred by django:
- afisha.yandex.ru
- kuda.yandex.ru
Mike Korobov
2009-06-05 10:03:05
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The following 3 sites use Django:
- giantbomb.com
- comicvine.com
- animevice.com
GiantBomb has a lot of traffic. Whiskey Media is responsible for the above sites and I believe Jacob Kaplan-Moss help them setup Django.
Thierry Lam
2009-06-08 20:31:50
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I know that at one time Disqus was being developed in Django. OSQA.net also runs on Django.
Andrew Sledge
2010-10-11 17:27:15