Here is another piece of info from guy who worked for Google http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye
And this relates to GAE Speed Here is something you've may have heard but never quite believed before: Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete. Protocol Buffers, BigTable and MapReduce are ancient, creaking dinosaurs compared to MessagePack, JSON, and Hadoop. And new projects like GWT, Closure and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. Designed by engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools. In the short time I've been outside Google I've created entire apps in Java in the space of a single workday. (Yes, you can program as quickly in Java as in Ruby or Python, if you understand your tools well.) I've gotten prototypes off the ground, shown it to people, or deployed them with hardly any barriers. On Jun 7, 9:59 am, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/07/inside_google_app_engine/ > > Nice overview, and I didn't see any glaring errors. I'll be keeping a link > to this to pass along whenever anyone asks me what GAE is (and isn't). An > interesting observation was that many apps spill into non-GAE infrastructure > when they need some functionality that GAE doesn't offer. That's true of > several of our apps: one of my apps interfaces with S3 heavily because I > wrote it before BlobStore existed; another uses GAE only as a massively > scalable front-end "lobby" and scheduler, for access to non-GAE servers (in a > private data center, and in EC2 when the private data center fills up). > > Also, it was interesting to see the coverage of App Scale. I was familiar > with AETyphoon, but not App Scale. Nice to know there are options if google > makes some really bad decisions about their pricing model in the coming > months. > > -Joshua -- 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.
