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Help decide on technology stack
Looking to build an application that primarily does a variety of data manipulation (on large data sets) using cool and simple UI
Key factors:
- need to use all open source technologies
- need to loosely couple
- postgresql is chosen for db because reliability and data integrity are an absolute necessity for my project
- Application performance could be moderate. Application might not have more than 2 concurrent users. Application deals with "large" data sets (10-100 gigabytes for now) but user can wait few more seconds or a min for the bulk updates to happen. So high performance is not a must have.
- any other key factors to consider?
Questions:
Q1# need advice on 'how to approach towards better design'. I really want to architect it well so future enhancements could be done painlessly
Q2# PHP vs Ruby vs Python- Which programming language is better with postgresql. I am leaning towards php since I guess it has extensive support with database programming
Q3# Material to read/learn about architecting web applications
Q4# Any pitfalls or major disadvantages of using postgresql?
Key factors:
- need to use all open source technologies
- need to loosely couple
- postgresql is chosen for db because reliability and data integrity are an absolute necessity for my project
- Application performance could be moderate. Application might not have more than 2 concurrent users. Application deals with "large" data sets (10-100 gigabytes for now) but user can wait few more seconds or a min for the bulk updates to happen. So high performance is not a must have.
- any other key factors to consider?
Questions:
Q1# need advice on 'how to approach towards better design'. I really want to architect it well so future enhancements could be done painlessly
Q2# PHP vs Ruby vs Python- Which programming language is better with postgresql. I am leaning towards php since I guess it has extensive support with database programming
Q3# Material to read/learn about architecting web applications
Q4# Any pitfalls or major disadvantages of using postgresql?
Dave Baldwin
If you're serious, you should investigate what Facebook has done to dramatically speed up PHP. Some more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
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