Rishi: This sounds like an excellent idea. Even with concurrent requests in python 2.7, using the asynchronous apis like this will make you application perform much better.
On 9 September 2011 06:18, Rishi Arora <rishi.ar...@ship-rack.com> wrote: > Actually I thought using RPCs is a good way to achieve parallelism in > python, before python 2.7 comes along. My app does a lot of URL fetches > from external websites. This is very inefficient in terms of GAE instance > uptime. If the external website takes 30 seconds to respond, my instance > stays up for 30 seconds, and can't service any requests. So my solution has > been to use asynchronous URL fetch using create_rpc. If I call 10 URL > fetches asynchronously, and each takes 30 seconds to return, then my 30 > second GAE instance uptime is now amortized over 10 URL fetches instead of a > single one. Does my logic sound wrong? I have yet to implement this, but I > imagine this will lower my costs by allowing me to set a really low value > for MaxNumInstances (like 1 or 2), and by lowering my instance hours, > without sacrificing request latency. > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Brandon Thomson <gra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good suggestion. At least until we have workable multithreadding I have >> become very reluctant to use RPCs unless absolutely necessary. It helps keep >> the instance number down. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/4UBt0EEiOj4J. >> 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. > -- 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.
