[appengine-java] Is it possible and proper to use Google App Engine as the platform for Twitter or Facebook?

[prever]

Hi.
I'm Kuwon and have a question about Google App Engine's capacity.

Is it possible to use Google App Engine as the service platform for
Twitter or Facebook and  proper?

Do they have to have their own service environment and optimize the
environment because Google App Engine is very general service
platform.

Why I'm asking this question is that if I launch the some special SNS
on Google App Engine  and it became very famous service(Because have
no money). And I must think about move this whole service to dedicated
platform after received venture capital.

thanks.

PS: Please understand my bad writing in english.


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Re: [appengine-java] Is it possible and proper to use Google App Engine as the platform for Twitter or Facebook?

[Ikai L (Google)]

Jaiku runs on App Engine and is open source:
http://jaiku.jaiku.com/presence/c4c55f7941d0448c9b376e606f330145

It's good
to think ahead, and we'd love to approach the challenge of scaling something
on App Engine that's as big as Google itself. App Engine's non-relational
datastore is built on top of BigTable, a distributed persistence mechanism.
Both Twitter and Facebook are known to use similar mechanisms for much of
their data.

I want to say, yes, it is definitely possible to build similar applications
on App Engine. It's better if you are starting from scratch, even, as both
those companies have dedicated ops folks and built their own deployment,
versioning, staging and rollback tools - building on App Engine means you
invest a lot less in this area. App Engine's pricing is also as competitive
as it gets. You don't pay for what you don't use, and this will lead to
significant cost savings as you grow.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:25 PM, prever  wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm Kuwon and have a question about Google App Engine's capacity.
>
> Is it possible to use Google App Engine as the service platform for
> Twitter or Facebook and  proper?
>
> Do they have to have their own service environment and optimize the
> environment because Google App Engine is very general service
> platform.
>
> Why I'm asking this question is that if I launch the some special SNS
> on Google App Engine  and it became very famous service(Because have
> no money). And I must think about move this whole service to dedicated
> platform after received venture capital.
>
> thanks.
>
> PS: Please understand my bad writing in english.
>
>
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