http://simonwillison.net/2013-07-31T10:15:00+00:00Simon Willison2013-07-31T10:15:00+00:002013-07-31T10:15:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2013/Jul/31/how-do-i-choose/

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-choose-between-asynchronous-web-frameworks-My-tech-group-is-fairly-language-agnostic-and-were-trying-to-standardize-on-some-technologies/answer/Simon-Willison">How do I choose between asynchronous web frameworks? My tech group is fairly language agnostic and we&#39;re trying to standardize on some technologies.</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Since they are all pretty close to each other and it sounds like your tech group's skills would support any of them, I would suggest having your tram build a simple prototype in all three so you can compare them for your own particular team and situation.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/frameworks">frameworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nodejs">nodejs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/play">play</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scala">scala</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tornado">tornado</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webapps">webapps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-frameworks">web-frameworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2012-01-14T09:22:00+00:002012-01-14T09:22:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Jan/14/play-framework-django-or/

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Play-Framework-Django-or-Rails-Which-one-do-you-recommend-for-Social-Networking-Web-applications/answer/Simon-Willison">Play Framework, Django or Rails? Which one do you recommend for  Social Networking Web applications.</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Both Rails and Django have been used for a large number of high profile social networking web applications. Off the top of my head, Django is used by Instagram and Pinterest, Rails is used by Posterous and Ravelry. I don't know what the largest sites built using Play are at the moment.</p> <p>The hard problems involved in building a social network are essentially framework-agnostic: things like scaling an activity feed and running queries against large social graphs are solved by smart application architecture, not built-in framework functionality. Whether you use Rails, Django or Play will have almost no effect on how you solve those larger architectural challenges.</p> <p>Pick the one you are most comfortable working with and start worrying about your site's functionality rather than its application framework.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/frameworks">frameworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/play">play</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-networks">social-networks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webapps">webapps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-frameworks">web-frameworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2009-10-25T23:21:36+00:002009-10-25T23:21:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/25/play/

<p><strong><a href="http://www.playframework.org/">Play framework for Java</a></strong></p> I’m genuinely impressed by this—it’s a full stack web framework for Java that actually does feel a lot like Django or Rails. Best feature: code changes are automatically detected and reloaded by the development web server, giving you the same save-and-refresh workflow you get in Django (no need to compile and redeploy to try out your latest changes). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/frameworks">frameworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java">java</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/play">play</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web">web</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-frameworks">web-frameworks</a></p>