On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Richard Arrano rickarr...@gmail.com wrote:
I had an idea that it might be able to be implemented in the
form of something along the lines of 1MB unevictable
memcache storage;
You could do this with a persistent server:
Richard wrote:
Something that occurred to me that might help you was I was actually
considering de-isolating the datastore as a single point of failure
by
additionally sending out those really high importance writes via XMPP
to some other server.
Absolutely agree. Amazon Web Services is perfect.
Hello Robert,
I don't necessary even need to do it by tasks - what I'm doing is
something along the lines of a live ebay type auction, where I need to
guarantee that when user X wins the bid for product Y, I will a)
record this bid, b) be able to access it for the next item so I can
know that
Have you tried to implement some kind of status model in the db? Save
the info in datastore. and call the tasks. Then the task could go see
the data stored and check if it must confirm the bid, quit the task,
send confirm e-mails, or things like that.
On 3 mar, 08:52, Richard Arrano
Hey Richard,
I think your idea sounds good. Inserting a named task if you can't
update the auction/item ought to do the trick. If your task gets into
the queue it should run; you can also adjust your retry parameters if
you want finer control of how tasks will retry. Any named task will
Hi Richard,
Thought I'd comment since I started this thread. Think Wim and Robert
have helped already more than I could. So just some thoughts from me.
First: I hope any GAE engineers reading this thread might have a
thought sparked about task queue featured needed for highly important,
Hi Steve,
I would certainly agree about some sort of ability to guarantee low-
volume high-importance storage. I had an idea that it might be able to
be implemented in the form of something along the lines of 1MB
unevictable memcache storage; we wouldn't be able to store much there,
but we would
Richard,
I would also love to see the ability to query a list of
tasks-to-be-executed. You can star issue 1790.
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1790
Robert
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 19:26, Richard Arrano rickarr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
I would
