From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAABBBAF for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:46:23 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiYEAJMxTExQRFuwWWdsb2JhbACfXwsBFhUENr8FhTYE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,258,1278280800"; d="scan'208";a="66912965" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2010 21:46:23 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Od79P-0002wY-55; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:46:19 +0100 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:46:19 +0100 To: Joel Reymont Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] scalable web apps Message-ID: <20100725194619.GA10658@annexia.org> References: <914B9960-EBC8-439B-B7F8-A852859B522F@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <914B9960-EBC8-439B-B7F8-A852859B522F@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; scalable:01 0100,:01 scalable:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:03 optimizing:03 languages:03 languages:03 apps:04 apps:04 jul:05 toc:06 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 08:49:26AM +0100, Joel Reymont wrote: > How do you build scalable web apps with OCaml? I would ask that question again, but miss out the "with OCaml" part, because really the choice of language doesn't matter very much. Or if you prefer think of it this way: People are using really unsuitable languages (PHP) and really slow languages (Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl) on some massive websites out there. So look for books about the general subject: minimizing calls to the database, scaling with Apache and memcached, the right layered architecture to use, what to cache, optimizing HTML. Here are a couple I like: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Applications/dp/0596102356 http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Up-Your-Site-Optimization/dp/toc/0735713243 Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat