I think there are some things people need to keep in mind. GAE is currently in a preview release with no announced date for when it will be ready for production use. Google has committed to try to get it up by year end, based on things said at conferences. That's it. You really should not build anything that's "live" production right now on it.
There is a big difference between criticism and constructive criticism, and there is more of the former in this thread. It may be true that the quotas are too strict, but bashing them for making them too strict is going to increase the change that they'll loosen them up. Personally, if I was working on releasing something to the scale of appengine to the public, my initial release would have strict quotas and then leave me in a position to loosen them in order to meet demand, rather than being too easy with the quotas and being forced to make them stricter in order to support load. As far as the memcache and whether developers will use it or not, I'd suggest that you should use the tools available to you. Maybe I come from different era of development and am jaded by over a decade of working a sysadmin for organizations with tight IT budgets. I have the belief that a developer should always optimize their code in order to have it run as cleanly and optimal as possible in order to cut hardware costs, rather than taking the shortest route to meet a deadline which in the long run increases operational costs when it scales beyond current hardware. Caching is always a good thing, rather than repeatedly doing the same computation over and over. Not to toot my own whistle, but if you don't have the time or inclination to write your own cache handler to take advantage of memcache, then take a look at the one I wrote at: http://gaeutilities.appspot.com/cache It can be used like any other dictionary object and uses both memcache and the datastore to store your results for both reliability and performance. There's also several others out there as well, some using just memcache, and others just using the datastore. This is a preview release and you are not currently paying for the product. I think you should consider that when you consider the tone in which you write your messages. Hopefully the developers and decision makers realize that there is a vocal minority and there and many more of us happily developing on the platform and taking advantage of what it has to offer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
