Well, the site is very front-end JavaScript heavy, so most of my time is spent on JavaScript. For the most part, Django has been great. I grew out of many relational SQL-based models and moved most of the key-value type data to mongo. (Stories, classifiers, feed load histories are all in mongo. Feeds, subscriptions, user accounts are still in postgresql.) And the feed fetcher is all custom code to run distributed and consistent.
Django has stayed out of my way and that's been nice. I've used Django on other projects (specifically Storybird: http://storybird.com, an collaborative storytelling startup) and it's been the moon for us. Absolutely incredible. And I write RoR at DocumentCloud and it too has been phenomenal. They're both great. Choose the language, not the framework.
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Well, the site is very front-end JavaScript heavy, so most of my time is spent on JavaScript. For the most part, Django has been great. I grew out of many relational SQL-based models and moved most of the key-value type data to mongo. (Stories, classifiers, feed load histories are all in mongo. Feeds, subscriptions, user accounts are still in postgresql.) And the feed fetcher is all custom code to run distributed and consistent.
Django has stayed out of my way and that's been nice. I've used Django on other projects (specifically Storybird: http://storybird.com, an collaborative storytelling startup) and it's been the moon for us. Absolutely incredible. And I write RoR at DocumentCloud and it too has been phenomenal. They're both great. Choose the language, not the framework.