I have been using TaskQueue for a long time and this view makes no sense to me. You are paying the same price for your Instances and DS read/write when executing a task. To be fair there is a small leeway which GAE gives you on not charging for storing Task parameters. So you have to weight this advantage against unpredictable Task scheduling timing.
On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:33:17 PM UTC-7, Michael Hermus wrote: > > Of course, but there is a definitive resource cost to enqueue and dequeue > the task (that is in addition to the instance time), and there is currently > no charge for that. > > On the other hand, if I defer work by writing an entity to the datastore > and processing it later, I have to pay both read and write costs. > > On Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:19:28 PM UTC-4, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: >> >> This is an interesting question, but I wouldn't exactly call tasks >> free: When a task executes, your instance is invoked. Tasks are >> really just a way of offsetting cost until later. >> >> Jeff >> >> -- 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/-/MBWO9_b8V2EJ. 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.
