[Seaside] Re: Interested in hearing about largest seaside deployments so far

[Bernard Notarianni]

Todd Blanchard <tblanchard <at> mac.com> writes:
> 
> I wrote a quickie 3 page seaside app to parse a big and very ugly file 
> of data and provide a nice interface that makes the data easy to browse 
> and search.  It didn't take me very long and the size of the code is 
> tiny, but the app is now deployed internally and is a huge hit among 
> its users (maybe 10 people).
> 
> In fact, its such a hit, that a coworker who is thinking of launching a 
> new website on the side asked me about using seaside for his new site.  
> Especially after I walked him through the code because it is so tiny 
> and simple.  His only concern is scalability - he's not planning on 
> colossal (which is what our employer has) - just hundreds to few 
> thousand users.  Has anybody got a pointer to a seaside app that is 
> handling that kind of traffic?
> 
> It would be nice to point him to it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Todd Blanchard
> 



Sorry, I dont have this pointer (but I am sure that some wise men of this list
will provide it ;-) )

However, Seaside works very well on VisualWorks which is a commercial high
quality product (those guys have the references of very large smalltalk
applications. I have seen one of their reference in a banking environnement)

Hence, the scalability issue is not on the seaside agenda, but maybe more on the
smalltalk environnement you choose. And I think you will not be disapointed with
visualworks.

You could maybe start with squeak, and upscale to VW when needed?...

(I have absolutely no commercial relations with this company, nor I want to be
hired by it ;-) )