Comments on: Using Django for Intranet Applications http://www.davidfischer.name/2009/10/using-django-for-intranet-applications/ Some Things to Some People Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David http://www.davidfischer.name/2009/10/using-django-for-intranet-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-142 David Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:58 +0000 http://www.davidfischer.name/?p=295#comment-142 <a href="#comment-141" rel="nofollow">@Steven Elliott </a> About what functionality are you concerned? At work, we use Django for moderate traffic (~500 total intranet users), somewhat intensive applications without many problems. In general, I choose Django for nearly every web based project where that decision is left up to me. The applications you described seem pretty straight forward and Django should be able to handle them unless you are doing something crazy. However, there are cases where Python may not be the best language choice to get the job done or Django may not be the best fit and in those cases you have to consider other options. We have an upcoming code analysis project that will rely heavily on MSSql Server (and other databases) and I have some reservations. Although <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc" rel="nofollow">pyodbc</a> is pretty solid for database access from Linux to MSSql, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-pyodbc/" rel="nofollow">django-pyodbc</a> has raised some concerns due to lack of support. We are considering using Python with <a href="http://www.sqlalchemy.org/" rel="nofollow">SQLAlchemy</a>/<a href="http://elixir.ematia.de" rel="nofollow">Elixir</a> (with and without Django) as well as Java. This application will have a database with billions of records and will do code analysis on tens of millions of files. However, my concerns aren't with Django's ability to handle that data but rather with support for the database packages we'll be using. @Steven Elliott
About what functionality are you concerned? At work, we use Django for moderate traffic (~500 total intranet users), somewhat intensive applications without many problems. In general, I choose Django for nearly every web based project where that decision is left up to me. The applications you described seem pretty straight forward and Django should be able to handle them unless you are doing something crazy.

However, there are cases where Python may not be the best language choice to get the job done or Django may not be the best fit and in those cases you have to consider other options. We have an upcoming code analysis project that will rely heavily on MSSql Server (and other databases) and I have some reservations. Although pyodbc is pretty solid for database access from Linux to MSSql, django-pyodbc has raised some concerns due to lack of support. We are considering using Python with SQLAlchemy/Elixir (with and without Django) as well as Java. This application will have a database with billions of records and will do code analysis on tens of millions of files. However, my concerns aren’t with Django’s ability to handle that data but rather with support for the database packages we’ll be using.

]]> By: Steven Elliott http://www.davidfischer.name/2009/10/using-django-for-intranet-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Steven Elliott Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:35:00 +0000 http://www.davidfischer.name/?p=295#comment-141 Interesting post. Sorry I'm a bit late in responding but I've just recently started looking at django as an alternative for some intranet-type applications. Part of my requirements include: paid time off tracking, micro-blogging, policy and memo delivery, organization news, inventory management, bug tracking/feature request software. I initially looked at Rails for this but I find Ruby very obtuse and Rails to be very confusing (for me). Do you feel that Django can handle "enterprisey" applications. Most of everything youbsee out there is a news site or social networking site. You don't see a lot of django apps that do a lot of processing and what not. Interesting post. Sorry I’m a bit late in responding but I’ve just recently started looking at django as an alternative for some intranet-type applications. Part of my requirements include: paid time off tracking, micro-blogging, policy and memo delivery, organization news, inventory management, bug tracking/feature request software.

I initially looked at Rails for this but I find Ruby very obtuse and Rails to be very confusing (for me). Do you feel that Django can handle “enterprisey” applications. Most of everything youbsee out there is a news site or social networking site. You don’t see a lot of django apps that do a lot of processing and what not.

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