I understand that BigTable is behind GAE, but my concern is more with GAE performance and quotas. If GAE had existed when Larry and Sergey were developing their pagerack algorithm, would they have used GEA for evaluation? I have my doubts. They would quickly reach quota limits, way before they knew if they had a viable idea.
Richard Tony wrote: > Though I realize this is not exactly what you're asking, the concept > of GAE is that it exposes some of the infrastructure that all Google > applications rely on (i.e. Datastore) for others to use. So, in a > sense, Google's various applications were using App Engine before App > Engine existed. As far as I know, every Google service runs on the > same homogeneous infrastructure, which is part of what makes it so > reliable (and why the only available languages are Python and Java, > languages used internally at Google). > > But I don't work there, so maybe I'm completely off-base. > > On Jul 15, 12:53 pm, richard emberson <richard.ember...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Eating one's own dog >> foodhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_one's_own_dog_food >> or in this case: >> Using one's own cloud. >> >> Amazon' cloud is based upon the IT technology they use >> within Amazon. >> Salesforce.com's Force.com offering is what they used to >> build their CRM system. >> >> These cloud vendors "Eat their own dog food". >> >> If a cloud vendor does not use their cloud offering for >> their other products and/or internal systems, one >> would have to assume that the cloud is viewed as >> a technology ghetto within their own corporation - good >> enough for others but not for ourselves. >> >> So, concerning the Google App Engine, are other groups >> within Google clamoring to port or build their offerings >> on top of the App Engine? If so, please be specific, what >> Google products and infrastructure and what are the schedules >> for their hosting on GAE? >> >> Is the GAE group supporting the Google Docs group as they >> move to use GAE? How about gmail, will the Google Gmail >> group be relying on GAE support? I have not seen emails >> from either of those internal Google groups on the GAE >> mailing list. Lastly, when will Google search be supported >> by the GAE group; >> >> Will those groups have to live under the same quota restrictions >> while they evaluate using GAE? If not, why not? If they >> are unreasonable for an internal evaluation, what makes them >> reasonable for an external evaluation? >> >> Evaluating whether or not GAE should be used for a particular >> application is not FREE even if one gets a very small slice >> of GAE resources with which to do the evaluation. >> Tens or hundreds of hours go into determine if GAE has >> the right characteristics and quotas that limit how fast one >> can work makes it worse. (Yes one can $$ for higher quotas, >> but during the evaluation phase $$ is out of the question.) >> >> Richard Emberson >> >> -- >> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > > -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
