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Why is Python used for high-performance/scientific computing (but Ruby isn't)?
There's a quote from a PyCon 2011 talk that goes:
At least in our shop (Argonne National Laboratory) we have three
accepted languages for scientific computing. In this order they are
C/C++, ...
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Random Cache Expiry
I've been experimenting with random cache expiry times to avoid situations where an individual request forces multiple things to update at once. For example, a web page might include five different ...
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Cpu-heavy web server
When reading about web servers, frameworks, etc most of the time I notice that the goal is to have a technology that has the next features:
Able to handle as many connections as possible.
Fit an I/O ...
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High performance and/or real time java open source applications [closed]
Which open source java projects do you know to be high performance or real time performance? I tried hard to find them on github or google, but couldn't find suitable.
I want to learn from this ...
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clojure/erlang/go for high volume server
I have a project that will need to handle 1000s of requests a second with a decent amount of processing for each. For the most part, the processing will be done on a list of items, basically ...
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How do I create a web service with high amounts of traffic that works effectively with lots of different users? [closed]
I have created web services before that are used by a small number of users but have a new project that would have lots of users.
For each user that uses the services, this is what they would do:
1) ...
