Re: New AWS-based website

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 12 Kwi, 09:45, Thomas Locke <tho...@12boo.net> wrote:

> Did you use templates_parser for the HTML,

No, I don't see any benefit from it (ironically, this is how PHP was
born!).

> or something else?

The HTML that is returned to the client is a combination of:
- static constants,
- generated (computed or obtained from the database or various local
data structures) content,
- files.

It depends on the expected frequency of changes in the given content,
but since each page is composed of elements from different categories,
it is always some combination of these. There are no strictly static
pages.

I also did not use the AWS session management, as I find it not very
convincing. Any nontrivial session-based operation requires the
implementation of additional data structures, which can easily
accommodate the complete session handling. There is no reason to use
multiple layers of mapping data structures for something that is a
consistent functional block.
Also, no SOAP.

In other words, considering that there are significant functionality
areas of AWS which I did not use, I would very welcome a streamlined
or core version of the library that provides only the most essential
features.
Let's call it "AWS Express Edition" or something like that... ;-)

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com