Also, we should stop calling these Instances. These are just Processes really. The billing doesn't meter for memory consumed by an instance or the CPU consumed... just plain Instance per hour pricing.. the Instances which are comparable to those on EC2 only in pricing.
Appengine has always encouraged using memcached for all caching requirements. I wouldn't mind if my Process gets torn down if it doesn't get requests for a minute or two.. Why should it be up for an entire hour? Deferred tasks, Queues, Crons all result in new requests and potentially new Processes.. This whole way of thinking in terms of Instances in appengine is so contrived. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:45 AM, stevep <prosse...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 11, 9:57 am, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For Python applications, yes, a single request takes up all of the > > resources of an instance for the time it's being handled. Java > > instances with threading enabled can handle multiple requests. > > Fundamentally (although the clothes are still in the wash, not on the > line) the old cpu-based resource charge was fair. > > Unless something drastic changes, the new instance charge model > appears heavily, very heavily prejudiced against Python. > > Egregious in the extreme. Making a decision so unfavorable to one > group is weird. Likely so weird that GAE should stop with > justifications. > > Maybe it all works out, but this looks just so weird, so very weird to > me. Why punish Python developers?? > > Cheers, > stevep > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
