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

2009-10-24 Thread ted stockwell
On Oct 24, 10:31 am, Gijsbert wrote: > Does anybody know if the start time of java apps are significantly > better (since they are compiled)? > The Java apps also take several seconds to start. Frankly, I consider that WAY FAST. Java server-side APIs are very heavyweight and definitely designe

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

2009-10-22 Thread ted stockwell
On Oct 22, 1:22 pm, gae123 wrote: > > you bring up a lot of good points but I was wondering what triggered > your e-mail and what makes you believe that we are actually in this > sort of "destructive cycle"? > Devel63 stated in his opening message that his/her application was being cycled out

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

2009-10-22 Thread ted stockwell
On Oct 22, 10:55 am, Devel63 wrote: > > Speeding up cold starts is clearly the best solution, but I don't know > how much time pre-compiling would save.  Paying for warm instances may > help, but because anyone can auto-ping every second, the tragedy of > the commons will still proceed to its i

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

2009-10-22 Thread ted stockwell
On Oct 21, 10:31 pm, Devel63 wrote: > > I see only 2 ways out: > Another way would be for Google to charge to keep applications warm. Amazon has a similar feature where you can pay extra to reserve EC2 instances to make sure that the instance are always available. Keeping apps warm is quite re

[google-appengine] Re: Big tracker

2009-10-14 Thread ted stockwell
On Oct 14, 7:05 am, Jonathan wrote: > > I looked through a couple of pages of the requests, and there are a > lot of issues that I care about (and starred). There are issues there > that are "New" from more than a year ago. How can it be that Google is > taking no notice of this communication c

[google-appengine] Re: Open Letter to Ryan Barrett and the AppEngine Team regarding "high availability"

2009-09-16 Thread ted stockwell
On Sep 15, 6:04 pm, ryan wrote: > > i also feel your pain in the support department. we wish we had the > resources to provide more high-touch support! we're not a large team, > though, so we have to ruthlessly prioritize. that often means less > individual support, and it can also means priori

[google-appengine] Re: 30 Max simultaneous requests (maxThreads)?

2009-09-08 Thread ted stockwell
On Sep 8, 2:58 pm, David Given wrote: > Adligo wrote: > > I mentioned is stored as a Session Attribute.  I assume that the app > > engine must be > > keeping the Session in a location that can be accessed by all > > threads. > > I'm afraid not! > > The *only* mechanism for communicating between

[google-appengine] Re: 30 Max simultaneous requests (maxThreads)?

2009-09-02 Thread ted stockwell
On Sep 2, 4:25 pm, "Brandon N. Wirtz" wrote: > > Is anyone actually hitting Thread limit errors? Or is this just a typical > I'm going to be the next Facebook OMG Google won't work for this when I get > to 1.2m active users guess I should build my own server in my basement > because it will be

[google-appengine] Re: 30 Max simultaneous requests (maxThreads)?

2009-09-02 Thread ted stockwell
On Sep 2, 2:34 pm, "Brandon N. Wirtz" wrote: > What would you need all those threads for in a web App?  If you were > crunching DNA, or calculating the path of particles from the big bang that > would make sense... > When you make an asynchronous URLFetch call does each asynchronous call to UR

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore query performance

2009-09-01 Thread ted stockwell
Since the inefficiency is in the encoding of an Entity to a Protocol Buffer should I assume that the advice to use an unindexed array instead of an unindexed List also applies to the Java environment?? On Sep 1, 6:56 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > > Why do you advice using ArrayProperty i

[google-appengine] Re: Memcache - how much space?

2009-08-13 Thread ted stockwell
Hi Jeff, A question Can I assume that the memcache size limit will increase as the number of servers running my application increases? On Aug 10, 5:53 pm, "Jeff S (Google)" wrote: > > The overall memcache size limit is not set in stone so we usually don't give > a hard number as whatever

[google-appengine] Re: The memcache service increment method is guaranteed to be atomic but is it also guaranteed to be consistent?

2009-08-04 Thread ted stockwell
Actually, I meant 'coherent', not consistent. On Aug 4, 1:24 pm, ted stockwell wrote: > ...in other words, is it possible for memcache to develop a 'split > brain' without notifiying its clients that something bad has happened? --~--~-~--~~~---

[google-appengine] The memcache service increment method is guaranteed to be atomic but is it also guaranteed to be consistent?

2009-08-04 Thread ted stockwell
...in other words, is it possible for memcache to develop a 'split brain' without notifiying its clients that something bad has happened? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To p

[google-appengine] SMS Verfication Troubles

2009-05-19 Thread ted stockwell
ited two working days for a response. I really need someone to release me from my SMS Verification purgatory. Thanks in advance, -ted stockwell PS: I think I somehow got into this state because, for reasons I don't understand, it seems to have taken several hours for the SMS verificatio