Jeff's point is exactly right: many start-ups and developers subject themselves to the lock-in and quirks of GAE because they hope to eventually become wildly successful, and they recognize the incredibly hard challenge of managing a rapidly scaling infrastructure with limited resources.
However, the cold-start issue adds an unwelcome and unnecessary obstacle to success, by subjecting a significant percentage of users to unacceptably high latencies. There are more than enough obstacles to success already, as most entrepreneurs are acutely aware, and so for those experiencing this it is extremely frustrating, bordering on maddening. One post by a GAE Product Manager or engineer saying the following would go a really long way with most of us: "We hear you.We recognize this as a significant problem. We are on it." On Sunday, February 3, 2013 5:30:21 PM UTC-8, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Kaan Soral <kaan...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Was your app low traffic? In my opinion there is no point in using GAE > for a > > non-extreme traffic app (or the possibility of extreme traffic, that's > the > > dream), because you restrict yourself in extreme ways rather than using > > mysql and stuff, and chill. > > High-traffic apps rarely start that way. If apps are stillborn because > performance sucks during the early-adopter and growth stage, then GAE > is really only useful for Google and we're pretty much all wasting our > time. > > Also: I have yet to see any hard evidence that high-traffic apps do > not suffer the same cold start problem as low-traffic apps. It could > easily be that the number of cold start requests are simply lost in > the volume of successful requests. After all, users don't report hung > http requests; they just reload the page and assume it was their ISP's > fault. > > Gafal: Sorry to see you go, but I totally understand. This issue is > deeply frustrating for me too. > > Jeff > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
