[Fwd: Beta testers needed for a high performance Python application server]

[Minor Gordon]

One thing I forgot to add: the code is GPLv2, though I'll consider 
alternative licenses for specific users.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Beta testers needed for a high performance Python application 
server
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:31:39 +0000
From: Minor Gordon <Minor.Gordon at cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: python-list at python.org

Hello all,

I'm looking for beta testers for a high performance, event-driven Python
application server I've developed.

About the server: the front end and other speed-critical parts of the
server are written in portable, multithreaded C++. The back end is an
embedded CPython interpreter. The server is much faster than anything in
pure Python, and it can compete with C servers (including e.g. lighttpd
for file workloads) or outdo them (e.g. anything behind Apache) until
CPython consumes a single processor. On the Python side it supports WSGI
(the server can handle the static and dynamic requests of MoinMoin with
a handful of lines), the DB API with blocking calls offloaded to a
connection in a separate thread (MySQL, SQLite supported), Google's
ctemplate, gzipping responses, file caching, reading and writing to URIs
as a client, AJAX integration, debugging as a Python extension, and a
lot of other features. The core Python API is event-driven, using
continuations like Twisted but much cleaner (continuations are any
callables, there are no special objects anywhere). The Python back end
also supports Stackless Python so all of the continuation machinery can
be hidden behind tasklet switching.

Background: I'm in this to help write a "story" for Python and web
applications. Everyone likes to go on about Ruby on Rails, and as far as
  I can tell there's nothing that approaches Rails in Python. I want to
code quickly in Python like I can with Rails, but without sacrificing
single node performance on many cores.

Beta testers: should be intermediate to advanced Python programmers with
demanding applications, particularly web applications with databases and
AJAX. The C++ is portable to Win32, Linux, and OS X, with no mandatory
libraries beyond python-dev.

Please contact me if you're interested: firstname.lastname at cl.cam.ac.uk.

Minor