Re: [google-appengine] Entity Sizing / Grouping wrt New Pricing

2011-09-16 Thread Steve
Hi Jeff, Yes, it's really a concern. Previously fetching 20 small sequential entities cost about the same as fetching 1 large entity 20x the size of the small ones. Now it's costing 10-20x as much because of the per-read (and per write for puts) pricing. I'm already using memcache extensivel

Re: [google-appengine] Entity Sizing / Grouping wrt New Pricing

2011-09-16 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
The first question I would ask is: Is this really a problem? Have you looked at your bill and decided for certain that the savings would be worth changing your code & possibly cluttering your business logic? That said, I would be tempted to see what optimization you can make with memcache. Seem

[google-appengine] Entity Sizing / Grouping wrt New Pricing

2011-09-15 Thread Steve
I'm looking for some opinions on to what degree I should aggregate my now small entities together into larger entities. Presently I have 50,000 "Day" entities where each entity is represents a day. They are relatively small with 6 float, 2 bool, 1 int, and 1 string property. No property index