[Zope] My Way of Zope Programming

Jens Vagelpohl jens@zope.com
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:39:33 -0400


> I came up to the idea that for people wanting to use Zope for high
> trafficked sites, and thus are looking for every bit of performance out of
> their web applications, ZPT would probably may not be a choice at all.
>
> I've recently tested Plone (the CMF skin built entirely of ZPTs) on a
> Pentium IV @ 1.7GHZ plenty of memory, and generally speaking I had this
> sensation that in despite of that horsepower, every page took a little bit
> of time to render while some pages took from half a second to two seconds.
> (DTML based pages, no matter how complicated they were, rendered almost
> immediately ). Now, take that and multiply it for 20 or more simultaneus 
> hit
> responses and you'll find out that you'll need more horsepower than the
> average in order to provide a pleasant session for all the users.

you'll find that you need *caching*. no large-scale application server can 
provide hundreds of hits a second without a good cache in front of it and 
without making sure that the rendered content carries the right caching 
headers.


jens