I fear we are in a destructive cycle:
- Cold starts take a long time (many seconds)
- So app developers set up auto-pings to keep their app warm
- So Google gets more aggressive in cycling out instances
- So app developers increase their ping frequency
- So even popular apps constantly hit cold starts
- So GAE becomes unusable for all
I have personally held off doing any auto-pings because I felt it was
"wrong", and bad for the common good. But cold starts have gotten
slower, and my app seems to get cycled out even more aggressively of
late (just a few seconds).
It would be nice to ask everyone to stop auto-pinging, but there's no
way to enforce it, and history has shown that the tragedy of the
commons is hard to avoid.
I see only 2 ways out:
-- Make cold starts much faster (perhaps by pre-compiling the code?)
-- Somehow associate enough cost that auto-pingers will stop
I have no idea how to do this.
Even if you ping every 3 seconds, that's still only 30K page
views per day
People with no traffic could ping every single second and
never pay anything
So, at a minimum, perhaps pre-compiling the code is a good first
start?
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