[google-appengine] Re: Migrating an existing PHP/MySQL web application to GAE

2009-12-02 Thread marksea
I'm certainly not a guru, but I would not start out by attempting to migrate any non-trivial application to GAE. From what I've seen so far, in addition to requiring major rewrites due to a fundamentally different db architecture, the platform is not stable or mature. They are calling it a "previ

[google-appengine] Re: Tragedy of the Commons, and Cold Starts

2009-12-04 Thread marksea
> > > We're discouraging people from using "pinging" techniques to keep > their VMs warm, because it increases the number of loading requests > for all of the low traffic applications on App Engine. It would be a > shame if we had to change scheduling behavior to enforce that policy. > > > Would a