title: Does Django scale?
body: <p>I'm building a web application with Django. The reasons I chose Django were:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I wanted to work with free/open-source tools.</li>
  <li>I like Python and feel it's a <strong>long-term</strong> language, whereas regarding Ruby I wasn't sure, and PHP seemed like a huge hassle to learn.</li>
  <li>I'm building a prototype for an idea and wasn't thinking too much about the future. Development speed was the main factor, and I already knew Python.</li>
  <li>I knew the migration to Google App Engine would be easier should I choose to do so in the future.</li>
  <li>I heard Django was "nice".</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now that I'm getting closer to thinking about publishing my work, I start being concerned about scale. The only information I found about the scaling capabilities of Django is provided by the Django team (I'm not saying anything to disregard them, but this is clearly not objective information...).</p>
  
  <p><strong>My questions:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>What's the "largest" site that's built on Django today? (I measure size mostly by user traffic)</li>
  <li>Can Django deal with <em>100,000 users daily</em>, each visiting the site for a couple of hours?</li>
  <li>Could a site like Stack Overflow run on Django?</li>
  </ul>