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Re: Twisted or Eventlet?

 

FWIW, I'm perfectly happy to work with either. :)

-jay

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Michael Gundlach
<michael.gundlach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Soren Hansen <soren.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:47:46PM -0500, Michael Gundlach wrote:
>> > +1 for Eventlet for the reasons already stated.  Simpler code often
>> > translates to fewer bugs and faster development, and I expect that
>> > working with Eventlet will also mean more people who are interested in
>> > contributing to OpenStack.
>>
>> Really? You think there's more of a community around eventlet than
>> Twisted?
>
> No info there.  I have not used Eventlet or Twisted in the past, and am
> giving the perspective of an outsider considering working with the project.
>  I had two offers earlier this year -- one to work at a company solving a
> large scaling problem on a Twisted system, and one to work solving a large
> scaling problem working in Eventlet.  They were pretty similar offers so it
> came down largely to choosing the technology I'd want to work with.
> When I researched Twisted, I read or got the impression that:
> - it had a "near-vertical learning curve"
> - it was named Twisted for a reason -- that it's hard to think the way
> Twisted needs you to think
> - its libraries were a morass (the homepage talks about having two web
> frameworks and it's not clear which one to choose)
> When I researched Eventlet, I read or got the impression that:
> - it is clean and intuitive to code in
> - it was the thing that came along after Twisted to solve the problem in a
> better way
> - momentum was gaining around it while Twisted was losing momentum
> I took the Eventlet job with Rackspace (having mistakenly understood during
> interviews that Rackspace was for-sure migrating to Eventlet :) ) because
> what I had been able to find out made Twisted look unappetizing and Eventlet
> look great.
> I would imagine that my experience is typical -- a shallow review of the two
> technologies made Eventlet much more appealing to work with.  Thus my
> suggestion that we'll get more contributions if we go with Eventlet.  That
> said, if there's some technical reason that one system is better for our
> needs than the other, of course that trumps evangelism.
> HTH,
> Michael
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