Hi David, The point of my post is that the "scalable and distributed system" should be just one mode of operation of Google App Engine as it ignores the other 50% use case which is admin and long-running processes.
Those do _not_ have to scale. But they are essential. Aral > I fail to see how either of these could be implemented in a truly > scalable and distributed system such as App Engine. The data is > potentially spread over thousands of machines, so any kind of global > co-ordination (needed for both entity counts and transactions) would > require a single machine to be "in charge", and hence the scaling > would be limited to that machine's capacity. <snip> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
