[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst Performance Testing

[Kieren Diment]

Bear in mind that we know of Catalyst sites with hundreds of bandwidth  
intensive hits per second that hasn't had to be rewritten in scala or  
whatever in order to scale ;)

On 23/04/2009, at 1:45 PM, Peter Karman wrote:

>> Peter Karman wrote:
>>> Catalyst is
>>> not optimized for serving static content, because there's already  
>>> good
>>> tools
>>> that do that. It's optimized for development of dynamic content.
>>>
>
> I just want to re-emphasize what I wrote earlier. Catalyst is  
> optimized for the
> *development* of dynamic content. Not necessarily for the delivery  
> of said
> content. Sure, you could write a dynamic site for "pure" mod_perl,  
> or even in C,
> but it'll take a lot longer to write, and you won't be able to  
> leverage the
> [ever-increasing] number of plugins, base controllers/models/views,  
> etc., that
> Catalyst offers.
>
> The most expensive part of any web site development is developer  
> time, including
> maintenance.
>
> That said, the most useful benchmarks you'll be able to develop are  
> going to be
> those specific to *your* project, and such benchmarks should take  
> into account
> time-to-develop as well as requests-per-second. Hardware is cheap;  
> knowledgeable
> people are not.
>
> -- 
> Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter at peknet.com
>
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