If GAE is not a good home for Lift applications, can you recommend some alternate hosts? Are there any free alternates?
Thanks, Sam Reid On Apr 17, 3:57 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, > > I've just committed a version of Lift (including the Lift Example) that runs > on the Google App Engine. You can see the running demo > at:http://liftdemo.appspot.com/ > > What's missing: > > - Mapper and Mapper-related stuff. You can use JPA. > - Comet. GAE's lack of thread or message queue support is a huge > limitation. > - Actor-based session-shutdown notification is disabled on GAE. > - There's no session affinity guarantee, so there may be problems with > migrating sessions (I'll be working with the Google folks on this issue) > > Okay... so you can build apps on GAE... I have to wonder... who would want > to? > > GAE gives you a highly scalable platform to build CRUD apps. Without a > back-end messaging infrastructure, long running processes, threads, > inter-session messaging, etc. there's not much in the way of exciting apps > to build. Here are a list of apps that could not be built with GAE: > > - Twitter (requires a message bus and back-ground processing) > - Facebook (has many of Twitter's requirements) > - GoogleTalk > - A travel site (the 30 second request duration means that looking stuff > up on a back end service is not possible) > - A multi-player game > > So... on a $100/mo box from CalPop, I can run a service that will scale to > 20M requests per day. If I'm doing 20M requests per day, I've got a > business where I want more control over my infrastructure than GAE gives > me. That might be Amazon EC2 where I can power-up and down boxes at will. > There are also a number of different scalable storage solutions on Amazon. > I just can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would want to put a > Java/Scala app on GAE. > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
