Hi Devel63, you bring up a lot of good points but I was wondering what triggered your e-mail and what makes you believe that we are actually in this sort of "destructive cycle"?
Thanks On Oct 21, 8:31 pm, Devel63 <danstic...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
