Hi Jeff,

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jeff Schwartz <jefftschwa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Nick. Thank you for your offer. I would like to develop a tasks that
> would benefit from the longer durations. Specifically, it involves sending
> out emails for all members participating within a social graph. Sort of like
> the way members receive email notifications on Facebook when someone adds a
> comment to a post. As the number of members that have to be sent
> notifications is indeterminate I was concerned about the feasibility of
> supporting this on AppEngine but I am sure that 10 minutes would be more
> than enough time.
>

I'd highly recommend building your app such that it shards the email sending
into many tasks regardless. Longer deadlines will help, but your app will be
more scalable - and faster to send emails in bulk - if you can break it down
into smaller tasks.


>
> Let me do this, let me try it first without any increase enabled. I will
> take some metrics and try to forecast that out to hundreds or even thousands
> of emails being sent. If I determine that I am going to run into problems
> running within the current limits I will email you a request to raise them
> for me. Would that be OK?
>

That's fine - feel free to contact me if you need an increase.

-Nick Johnson

>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Nick Johnson (Google) <
> nick.john...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I can enable 10 minute timeouts for offline requests (eg, task queue and
>> cron) and offline URLFetch calls right now, if you have an App ID that
>> requires it. Other features aren't currently on our timeline, so we can't
>> provide a concrete estimate of when we're likely to make them available.
>>
>> -Nick Johnson
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jeff Schwartz <jefftschwa...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nick. I am very encourage by your responses to Ben, specifically
>>> regarding increasing all these limits across the board and not just for
>>> business customers. Can you say when Google will announce their intentions
>>> regarding the specifics of these pending changes? It would be very
>>> beneficial to know these prior to their availability so as to better factor
>>> their benefits into our designs now.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Nick Johnson (Google) <
>>> nick.john...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ben Chung <oom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, App Engine Team:
>>>>>
>>>>> Our RD developers, We are very interested in App Engine for Business.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because we are assessing to migrate our platform to GAE platform, so
>>>>> there are some questions for you, hope you can help us to answer them.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) We know there are many 1MB limitation, like datastore for each
>>>>> entity, image resize, mail attachment, URL fetch, memcache value.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Does "App Engine for Business" support to revoke these limitations by
>>>>> paying more costs?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We're working to increase all these limits, but when we do, it's likely
>>>> to be across the board, not just for Business customers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Does "App Engine for Business" support many applications to access
>>>>> ONE datastore(DB)?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No. If you can explain why you need to do this, we can probably suggest
>>>> a better alternative, though.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Does "App Engine for Business" support request handler for more
>>>>> than 30 seconds?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is another limitation we're working on. Please contact me off-list
>>>> if you're interested in learning more.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) Does "App Engine for Business" support socket to use?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, all outgoing requests must be via one of our APIs, such as URLFetch.
>>>>
>>>> -Nick Johnson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> BR,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben
>>>>>
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