Shard when you are updating the same entity multiple times per second.
 Various numbers have been stated, but it is usually something around
3 writes to the same entity per second.


Robert






On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 23:48, Mark <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot find this statistic, I think I read it somewhere in the app
> engine docs - what's the write throughput app engine advertises, and
> is there any recommendation as to what point we should think about
> things like sharded counters?
>
> For example, I need to keep a counter of some action, I have a class
> dedicated for that purpose. I don't expect more than one write per
> hour on it, so there's no need to think about sharding it. But is
> there any rule out there to let us know when we should start moving to
> a sharded counter?
>
> Thanks
>
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