FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched
Jason Ford
is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media.
It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple
social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the
incoming content back up on your own website.
http://www.feedmagnet.com
Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic.
We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as
they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other
sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python
integration code as an open source module soon.
Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework,
documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the
community!
- Jason
OkaMthembo
Lloyd
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Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
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OkaMthembo
Jason Ford
at 2 months from first code until now. Luke had used Django on a few
projects before this one, but the past two months have been my
introduction to Django. I really like it - especially compared with
some of the PHP frameworks I had dabbled in previously. Not only was
it quicker to build in Django, but I feel like our code is much more
maintainable too.
- Jason
On Dec 17, 2:21 am, OkaMthembo <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to finish?
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> Lloyd
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> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote:
> > We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It
> > is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media.
> > It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple
> > social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the
> > incoming content back up on your own website.
>
> >http://www.feedmagnet.com
>
> > Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic.
> > We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as
> > they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other
> > sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python
> > integration code as an open source module soon.
>
> > Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework,
> > documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the
> > community!
>
> > - Jason
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pabloi
I also found your blog posting regarding Django vs Ruby very
interesting, if I may ask, did you make some metrics to determine how
faster Python can be over Ruby?
Also, this might be a lot to ask but ... what kind of infrastructure
do you use to support your site, I guess the site might required a lot
of resources to work.
Congrats on the launching!
- Pablo
Jason Ford
subjective than objective. Although I read several good articles that
had more objective metrics to compare Ruby and Python speed, I did not
run those kinds of tests myself. My approach was more about gathering
the information that was already out there - both online and from
professional contacts - parsing it, and formulating some high-level
thoughts on the differences between the two so I could make a decision
for our site. I can say that our Django implementation is
significantly faster than the CakePHP prototype I had initially built.
We attribute most of that to being able to easily run simultaneous
threads in Python for pulling in content.
Our infrastructure requirements are actually not that high right now.
By using Python's built-in threading to gather content and CouchDB to
quickly store and retrieve it, we're keeping resource requirements at
a minimum. We do plan to upgrade to the cloud at some point, but for
now we are on SliceHost, monitoring performance to determine when to
upgrade.
- Jason
pabloi
using Amazon infrastructure, which is by the way amazing, but is
always good to consider alternatives.
- Pablo
OkaMthembo
Season's greetings to all..
Lloyd
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