On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Ted Suzman <t...@suzman.net> wrote:
> How's your experience with mysql-connector
> (http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=302) been? I'd love to be
> able to use mysql asynchronously (as I'm sure a lot of people would), but
> the project looks young. Have you experienced many bugs? Do you maintain a
> pool of connections so multiple queries can run in parallel?
> Thanks,
> Ted

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Andrey Popp <8may...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hello.

>> > a. what are you using gevent for?

>> > b. what other options did you consider and why have chosen gevent? /
>> > if you switched from another network library, why?

>> At my main work we are using gevent for developing payment processing
>> system and related services. We had started with Twisted, but soon
>> realized that with amount of business logic we have to implement our
>> code turning to be huge heap of callbacks. That led us to choose
>> between gevent, eventlet and concurrence (all are make use of
>> greenlet). Final reasons to choose gevent were focus to libevent
>> library and small code base. Now we have almost complete system in
>> preproduction which use along with gevent:

>> * SQLAlchemy for async connectivity with MySQL databases (we are using
>> pure python mysql-connector library as DB-API adapter).
>> * Custom binary protocol for intercommunicating between services.
>> * Gevent patched stdlib's httplib.

>> Also I am working on backends for vkontakte/facebook applications.
>> Gevent helps a lot:

>> * Patched httplib again for querying facebook/vkontakte APIs.
>> * Uploading files to Amazon S3 with patched boto library.
>> * Fast evhttp-based WSGI server for frontends based on Werkzeug WSGI
>> library.

>> > c. are you planning to use gevent in future projects, if so what kind
>> > of tasks will you use it for?

>> Yes, for example, now I'm planning to use gevent to provide complete
>> implementation of Erlang distributed node in Python.

>> Andrey Popp.