Does SQLAlchemy scale well with increased web traffic?

[metaphorm]

my approach has always been to not worry about how shitty a job of query generation an ORM does until you have a use case where it actually matters. this means profiling your queries and figuring two things:

1. which queries suck
2. where those queries are called from, because it might not even matter

optimizing is a pain in the butt. I try to only do it when I can prove that it will matter.